Quotes by Propertius

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1st-century BC Roman elegiac poet · Roman

1st-century BC Roman elegiac poet

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“Everybody in love is blind.”

“Give the historians something to write about.”

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

“Great is the road I climb but... the garland offered by an easier effort is not worth the gathering.”

“Great is the road I climb but... the garland offered by an easier effort is not worth the gathering.”

“Although strength should fail, the effort will deserve praise. In great enterprises the attempt is enough.”

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“Although strength should fail, the effort will deserve praise. In great enterprises the attempt is enough.”
— Sextus Propertius
Great Effort Fail

“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 be an end of every modest restraint.”
— Sextus Propertius
Good Law Gold

“Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent.”
— Propertius
absence

“Great is the road I climb but... the garland offered by an easier effort is not worth the gathering.”
— Propertius
goals

“Give the historians something to write about.”
— Propertius
history historians

“Everybody in love is blind.”
— Propertius
love

“Great is the road I climb but... the garland offered by an easier effort is not worth the gathering.”
— Propertius
goals