Although strength should fail, the effort will deserve praise. In great enterprises the attempt is enough.
Sextus Propertius
Afflicted by love's madness all are blind.
madness blind
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.
rights faith theend
There is something beyond the grave; death does not end all, and the pale ghost escapes from the vanquished pyre.
death theend
Never change when love has found its home.
change home
Age makes all things greater after their death; a name comes to the tongue easier from the grave.
age death
Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away.
man
Let each man pass his days in that wherein his skill is greatest.
Let each man have the wit to go his own way.
Anyone who is an enemy of mine, let him love women, but let he who is my friend rejoice in men.
women 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.
No rival will steal away my sure love; that glory will be my gray hair.
glory
effort strength
I am climbing a difficult road; but the glory gives me strength.
strength glory
What though strength fails? Boldness is certain to win praise. In mighty enterprises, it is enough to have had the determination.
strength
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