Propertius
Let's give the historians something to write aboutCollection: Writing
Never change when love has found its home.Collection: Love
Let each man have the wit to go his own way.Collection: Men
Fickleness has always befriended the beautiful.Collection: Beautiful
The law itself follows gold.Collection: Law
Even if my strength should fail, my daring will win me praise: in might enterprises even the will to succeed is enough.Collection: Inspirational
Love is fostered by confidence and constancy; he who is able to give much is able also to love much.Collection: Inspirational
Do not unto another that which you would not he should do unto you.Collection: Should
The eyes are the pioneers that first announce the soft tale of love.Collection: Eye
Make room, Roman writers, make room for Greek writers; something greater than the Iliad is born.Collection: Greek
Anyone who is an enemy of mine, let him love women, but let he who is my friend rejoice in men.Collection: Men
Let each man pass his days in that endeavor wherein his gift is greatest.Collection: Men
Age makes all things greater after their death; a name comes to the tongue easier from the grave.Collection: Names
To each man at his birth nature has given some fault.Collection: Men
Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent.Collection: Speech
Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away.Collection: Money
Afflicted by love's madness all are blind.Collection: Love
Something greater than the Iliad now springs to birth -Nescio quid maius nascitur IliadeCollection: Spring
Even a faithful mistress can be bent by constant threats.Collection: Faithful
In love, a verse of Mimnermus has more power than one of Homer.Collection: Power
Cupid is naked and does not like artifices contrived by beauty.Collection: Love
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 men; the seed of our cares sprouts from your head.Collection: Money
I say as an expert, no one is faithful in love -Expertus dico, nemo est in amore fidelisCollection: Love
Not only the bull attacks his enemies with curved horn, but also the sheep, when harmed fights back.Collection: Fighting
That death is best which comes appropriately at a ripe age.Collection: Death
Fame due to the achievements of the mind never perishes.Collection: Achievement
Beauty is fading, nor is fortune stable; sooner or later death comes to all.Collection: Death
Faith is not sure, if you cannot turn love to quarrel; may my enemies obtain a mild mistress.Collection: Faith
Always in absent lovers love's tide flows stronger.Collection: Real
If you see anything, always deny that you've seen; or if perchance something pains you, deny that you're hurt.Collection: Hurt
In great things it is enough even to have willed.Collection: Enough
Love never offers to anyone wings so easy that he does not hold him back with his other hand.Collection: Hands
There is something beyond the grave; death does not end all, and the pale ghost escapes from the vanquished pyre.Collection: Doe
Great is the height I just scale, but the prospect of glory gives me strength.Collection: Motivational
And nobility will not be able to help you with your love; Love does not know how to cede to ancestral images.Collection: Love
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.Collection: Girl
Love can be put off, never abandoned.Collection: Abandoned
No rival will steal away my sure love; that glory will be my gray hair.Collection: Hair
Among absent lovers, ardor always fares better.Collection: Lovers
A cause breaks or exalts a soldier's strength; unless that cause is just, shame will make him throw his weapons away.Collection: Military
There is no wide road which leads to the Muses.Collection: Inspirational
If she is pleasing to one man, a girl is taken care of.Collection: Girl
Allow me, whom Fortune always desires to bury, lay down my life in these final trivialities. Many have freely died in longlasting loves, among whose number may the earth cover me as well.Collection: Numbers