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Ever let your hook be hanging; where you least believe it, there will be a fish in the stream. [Lat., Semper tibi pendeat hamus: Quo minime credas gurgite, piscis erit.] - Ars Amatoria (bk. III, 425) [Fishing : Opportunity] Opportunity is ever worth expecting; let your hood be ever hanging ready. The fish will be in the pool where you least imagine it to be. [Lat., Casus ubique valet; semper tibi pendeat hamus. Quo minime credas gurgite, piscis erit.] - Ars Amatoria (bk. III, 425) [Fishing : Opportunity] There is a God within us and intercourse with heaven. [Lat., Est deus in nobis; et sunt commercia coeli.] - Ars Amatoria (bk. III, 549) [God] Neither will the wave which has passed be called back; nor can the hour which has gone by return. [Lat., Nec, quae praeteriit, iterum revocabitur unda: Nec, quae praeteriit, hora redire potest.] - Ars Amatoria (bk. III, 63) [Time] By arts, sails, and oars, ships are rapidly moved; arts move the light chariot, and establish love. [Lat., Arte citae veloque rates remoque moventur; Arte levis currus, arte regendus Amor.] - Ars Amatoria (I, 3) [Art] But still her silent looks loudly reproached me. [Lat., Sed taciti fecere tamen convicia vultus.] - Ars Amatoria (I, 574) [Silence] The silent countenance often speaks. [Lat., Saepe tacens vocem verbaque vultus habet.] - Ars Amatoria (I, 574) [Silence] Fortune and Love befriend the bold. [Lat., Audentum forsque Venusque juvant.] - Ars Amatoria (I, 608) [Fortune] Nor is there any law more just, than that he who has plotted death shall perish by his own plot. [Lat., Neque enim lex est aequior ulla, Quam necis artifices arte perire sua.] - Ars Amatoria (I, 655) [Law : Murder] The swallow is not ensnared by men because of its gentle nature. [Lat., At caret insidiis hominum, quia mitis, hirundo.] - Ars Amatoria (II, 149) [Gentleness] Yield to him who opposes you; by yielding you conquer. [Lat., Cede repugnanti; cedendo victor abibis.] - Ars Amatoria (II, 197) [Conquest] Nothing is stronger than habit. [Lat., Nil consuetudine majus.] - Ars Amatoria (II, 345) [Habit] Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop. [Lat., Da requiem; requietus ager bene credita reddit.] - Ars Amatoria (II, 351) [Rest] I attempt a difficult work; but there is no excellence without difficulty. [Lat., Ardua molimur; sed nulla nisi ardua virtus.] - Ars Amatoria (II, 537) [Difficulties] While strength and years permit, endure labor; soon bent old age will come with silent foot. [Lat., Dum vires annique sinunt, tolerate labores. Jam veniet tacito curva senecta pede.] - Ars Amatoria (II, 669) [Labor] The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late. [Lat., Prisca juvent alios; ego me nunc denique natum Gratulor.] - Ars Amatoria (III, 121), (translation by Sydney Smith) [Past] We are charmed by neatness of person; let not thy hair be out of order. [Lat., Munditiis capimur: non sine lege capillis.] - Ars Amatoria (III, 133) [Hair] What is hid is unknown: for what is unknown there is no desire. [Lat., Quod latet ignotum est; ignoti nulla cupido.] - Ars Amatoria (III, 397) [Ignorance] Luck affects everything; let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it, there will be a fish. [Lat., Casus ubique valet: semper tibi pendeat hamus, Quo minime credas gurgite, piscis erit.] - Ars Amatoria (III, 425) [Fortune] Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts. [Lat., Candida pax homines, trux decet ira feras.] - Ars Amatoria (III, 502) [Peace] There is a god within us, and we have intercourse with heaven. That spirit comes from abodes on high. [Lat., Est deus in nobis, et sunt commercia coeli. Sedibus aetheriis spiritus ille venit.] - Ars Amatoria (III, 549) [Soul] Our advantages fly away without aid. Pluck the flower. [Lat., Nostra sine auxilio fugiunt bona. Carpite florem.] - Ars Amatoria (III, 79) [Opportunity] Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few. [Lat., Paucite paucarum diffundere crimen in omnes.] - Ars Amatoria (III, 9) [Public : Punishment] You do not know it but you are the talk of all the town. [Lat., Fabula (nec sentis) tota jactaris in urba.] - Art of Love (III, 1, 21) [Gossip] Those dreams are true which we have in the morning, as the lamp begins to flicker. [Lat., Namque sub Aurora jam dormitante lucerna Sommia quo cerni tempore vera solent.] - Epistles (XIX, Hero Leandro, 195) [Dreams] Displaying page 10 of 17 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 [10] 11 12 13 14 15 16 17
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