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You will be melancholy, if you are solitary. - [Proverbs] Thus does the white swan, as he lies on the wet grass, when the Fates summon him, sing at the fords of Maeander. - ep. VII, (Riley's translation) [Swans] We are all bound thither; we are hastening to the same common goal. Black death calls all things under the sway of its laws. [Lat., Tendimus huc omnes; metam properamus ad unam. Omnia sub leges mors vocat atra suas.] - Ad Liviam (359) [Death] He fills his lifetime with deeds, not with inactive years. [Lat., Actis aevum implet, non segnibus annis.] - Ad Liviam (449) [Deeds] Ah me! how easy it is (how much all have experienced it) to indulge in brave words in another person's trouble. [Lat., Hei mihi, quam facile est (quamvis hic contigit omnes), Alterius lucta fortia verba loqui!] - Ad Liviam (9) [Words] While I am speaking the hour flies. [Lat., Dum loquor hora fugit.] - Amorum (bk. I, 11, 15) [Time] Let the crowd delight in things of no value; to me let the golden-haired Apollo minister full cups from the Castalian spring (the fountain of Parnassus). [Lat., Vilia miretur vulgus; mihi flavus Apollo Pocula Castalia plena ministret aqua.] - Amorum (bk. I, 15, 35), motto on title page of Shakespeare's "Venus and Adonis" [Gods] Thus I am not able to exist either with you or without you; and I seem not to know my own wishes. [Lat., Sic ego nec sine te nec tecum vivere possum Et videor voti nescius esse mei.] - Amorum (bk. II, 10, 39) [Love] Fool, what is sleep but the likeness of icy death? The fates shall give us a long period of rest. [Lat., Stulte, quid est somnus, gelidae nisi mortis imago? Longa quiescendi tempora fata dabunt.] - Amorum (bk. II, 10, 40) [Sleep] Indulgent gods, grant me to sin once with impunity. That is sufficient. Let a second offence bear its punishment. [Lat., Di faciles, peccasse semel concedite tuto: Id satis est. Peonam culpa secunda ferat.] - Amorum (bk. II, 14, 43) [Sin] The hunter follows things which flee from him; he leaves them when they are taken; and ever seeks for that which is beyond what he has found. [Lat., Venator sequitur fugientia; capta relinquit; Semper et inventis ulteriora petit.] - Amorum (bk. II, 9, 9) [Future] I would that you were either less beautiful, or less corrupt. Such perfect beauty does not suit such imperfect morals. [Lat., Aut formosa fores minus, aut minus improba vellem. Non facit ad mores tam bona forma malos.] - Amorum (bk. III, 11, 41) [Beauty] Here lies Tibullus; of all that he was there scarcely remains enough, to fill a small urn. [Lat., Jacet ecce Tibullus; Vix manet e toto parva quod urna capit.] - Amorum (bk. III, 9, 39) [Epitaphs] Thanks are justly due for things got without purchase. [Lat., Gratia pro rebus merito debetur inemtis.] - Amorum (I, 10, 43) [Gratitude] Envy feeds on the living. It ceases when they are dead. [Lat., Pascitur in vivis livor; post fata quiescit.] - Amorum (I, 15, 39) [Envy] That load becomes light which is cheerfully borne. [Lat., Leve fit quod bene fertur onus.] - Amorum (I, 2, 10) [Cheerfulness] The burden which is well borne becomes light. [Lat., Leve fit quod bene fertur onus.] - Amorum (I, 2, 10) [Courage] Anger assists hands however weak. [Lat., Quamlibet infirmas adjuvat ira manus.] - Amorum (I, 7, 66) [Anger] Deadly poisons are concealed under sweet honey. [Lat., Impia sub dulci melle venena latent.] - Amorum (I, 8, 104) [Deceit] Time steals on and escapes us, like the swift river that glides on with rapid stream. [Lat., Labitur occulte, fallitque volubilis aetas, Ut celer admissis labitur amnis aquis.] - Amorum (I, 8, 49) [Time] Giving requires good sense. [Lat., Rest est ingeniosa dare.] - Amorum (I, 8, 62) [Gifts] Every lover is a soldier. (Love is a warfare.) [Lat., Militat omnis amans.] - Amorum (I, 9, 1) [Love] Let the man who does not wish to be idle, fall in love. [Lat., Qui non vult fieri desidiosus, amet.] - Amorum (I, 9, 46) [Love] What is lawful is undesirable; what is unlawful is very attractive. [Lat., Quod licet est ingratum quod non licet acrius urit.] - Amorum (II, 19, 3) [Pleasure] What follows I flee; what flees I ever pursue. [Lat., Quod sequitur, fugio; quod fugit, usque sequor.] - Amorum (II, 19, 36) [Progress] Displaying page 8 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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