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

Love never offers to anyone wings so easy that he does not hold him back with his other hand.
Sextus Propertius

Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent.
Sextus Propertius

Love can be put off, never abandoned.
Sextus Propertius

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

Age makes all things greater after their death; a name comes to the tongue easier from the grave.
Sextus Propertius

Anyone who is an enemy of mine, let him love women, but let he who is my friend rejoice in men.
Sextus Propertius