Propertius - Elegies

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Let each man pass his days in that wherein his skill is greatest.

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Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent.

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Never change when love has found its home.

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Cynthia first, with her eyes, caught wretched me
Smitten before by no desires.

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Let each man have the wit to go his own way.

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He errs that seeks to set a term to the frenzy of love; true love hath no bound.

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Make way, you Roman writers, make way, Greeks! Something greater than the Iliad is born.

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O like Venus attended by a thousand tender Cupids, setting foot upon the sea that gave her birth.

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The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.

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There is something beyond the grave; death does not end all, and the pale ghost escapes from the vanquished pyre

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Even if strength fail, boldness at least will deserve praise: in great endeavours even to have had the will is enough.

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What though strength fails? Boldness is certain to win praise. In mighty enterprises, it is enough to have had the determination.

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Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

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The seaman's story is of tempest, the plowman's of his team of bulls; the soldier tells his wounds, the shepherd his tale of sheep.

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The sailor tells of winds, the ploughman of bulls, the soldier counts his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.

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Whoever he was who first depicted Amor as a boy, don't you think it was a wonderful touch? He was the first to see that lovers live without sense.

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