Propertius Quotes
- If she is pleasing to one man, a girl is taken care of.
- A cause breaks or exalts a soldier's strength; unless that cause is just, shame will make him throw his weapons away.
- In great things it is enough even to have willed.
- Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent.
- By gold all good faith has been banished; by gold our rights are abused; the law itself is influenced by gold, and soon there will…
- Even a faithful mistress can be bent by constant threats.
- Age makes all things greater after their death; a name comes to the tongue easier from the grave.
- Anyone who is an enemy of mine, let him love women, but let he who is my friend rejoice in men.
- Love can be put off, never abandoned.
- Love never offers to anyone wings so easy that he does not hold him back with his other hand.
- The law itself follows gold.
- It is important to remember that whereas justice has grandeur not devolving from the simian skull of man, law is a human institution and therefore…