Propertius Quotes & Sayings

Never change when love has found its home. — Propertius

If you see anything, always deny that you've seen; or if perchance something pains you, deny that you're hurt. — Propertius

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

Love is fostered by confidence and constancy; he who is able to give much is able also to love much. — Propertius

Cupid is naked and does not like artifices contrived by beauty. — Propertius

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. — Propertius

Something greater than the Iliad now springs to birth -Nescio quid maius nascitur Iliade — Propertius

Let each man pass his days in that endeavor wherein his gift is greatest. — Propertius

Let's give the historians something to write about — Propertius

I say as an expert, no one is faithful in love -Expertus dico, nemo est in amore fidelis — Propertius

To each man at his birth nature has given some fault. — Propertius

Beauty is fading, nor is fortune stable; sooner or later death comes to all. — Propertius

There is no wide road which leads to the Muses. — Propertius

Even if my strength should fail, my daring will win me praise: in might enterprises even the will to succeed is enough. — Propertius

Fickleness has always befriended the beautiful. — Propertius

Always in absent lovers love's tide flows stronger. — Propertius

That death is best which comes appropriately at a ripe age. — Propertius

Fame due to the achievements of the mind never perishes. — Propertius

If she is pleasing to one man, a girl is taken care of. — Propertius

The law itself follows gold. — Propertius

The eyes are the pioneers that first announce the soft tale of love. — Propertius

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

I am climbing a difficult road;
but the glory gives me strength. — Propertius