Occupation: Poet Birth: 48 Bc Death: 14 Bc
You, O money, are the cause of a restless life! Because of you we journey toward a premature death; you provide cruel nourishment for the evils of me….
Love presses my head with carefully placed feet, wretch that he is, until he has taught me to detest chaste girls, and to live with no counsel..
Let each man have the wit to go his own way..
Love never offers to anyone wings so easy that he does not hold him back with his other hand..
Something greater than the Iliad now springs to birth -Nescio quid maius nascitur Iliade.
If she is pleasing to one man, a girl is taken care of..
Anyone who is an enemy of mine, let him love women, but let he who is my friend rejoice in men..
Cupid is naked and does not like artifices contrived by beauty..
I say as an expert, no one is faithful in love -Expertus dico, nemo est in amore fidelis.
Among absent lovers, ardor always fares better..
I am climbing a difficult road; but the glory gives me strength..
In great things it is enough even to have willed..
Afflicted by love's madness all are blind..
Faith is not sure, if you cannot turn love to quarrel; may my enemies obtain a mild mistress..
Not only the bull attacks his enemies with curved horn, but also the sheep, when harmed fights back..
Love can be put off, never abandoned..
Even a faithful mistress can be bent by constant threats..
Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent..
No rival will steal away my sure love; that glory will be my gray hair..
A cause breaks or exalts a soldier's strength; unless that cause is just, shame will make him throw his weapons away..
There is no wide road which leads to the Muses..