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Among absent lovers, ardor always fares better. - [Absence] Beauty is fading, nor is fortune stable; sooner or later death comes to all. - [Death] Do not unto another that which you would not he should do unto you. - [Proverbs] Fickleness has always befriended the beautiful. - [Fickleness] He will not carry his wealth to the waters of Acheron. - [Proverbs] Let me skim the water with one oar, and with the other touch sand. [Go not out of your depth.] - [Proverbs] Our dress still varying, nor to forms confined, Shifts like the sands, the sport of every wind. - [Fashion] That death is best which comes appropriately at a ripe age. - [Death] The eyes are the pioneers that first announce the soft tale of love. - [Eyes] To each man at his birth nature has given some fault. - [Proverbs] Let us enjoy pleasure while we can; pleasure is never long enough. [Lat., Dum licet inter nos igitue laetemur amantes; Non satis est ullo tempore longus amor.] - Elegioe (I, 19, 25) [Pleasure] Although strength should fail, the effort will deserve praise. In great enterprises the attempt is enough. [Lat., Quod si deficiant vires, audacia certe Laus erit: in magnis et voluisse sat est.] - Elegioe (II, 10, 5) [Failure] Everybody in love is blind. [Lat., Scilicent insano nemo in amore videt.] - Elegioe (II, 14, 18) [Love] Every form as nature made it is correct. [Lat., Ut natura dedit, sic omnis recta figura.] - Elegioe (II, 18, 25) [Nature] Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent. [Lat., Absenti nemo ne nocuisse velit.] - Elegioe (II, 19, 32) [Absence] My last confidence will be like my first. [Lat., Ultima talis erit quae mea prima fides.] - Elegioe (II, 20, 34) [Confidence] Not only does the bull attack its foe with its crooked horns, but the injured sheep will fight its assailant. [Lat., Non solum taurus ferit uncis cornibus hostem, Verum etiam instanti laesa repugnat ovis.] - Elegioe (II, 5, 19) [Courage] Time magnifies everything after death; a man's fame is increased as it passes from mouth to mouth after his burial. [Lat., Omnia post obitum fingit majora vetustas: Majus ab exsequiis nomen in ora venit.] - Elegioe (III, 1, 23) [Fame] 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. [Lat., Auro pulsa fides. auro venalia jura, Aurum lex sequitur, mox sine lege pudor.] - Elegioe (III, 13, 48) [Bribery] The honors of genius are eternal. [Lat., Ingenio stat sine morte decus.] - Elegioe (III, 2, 24) [Genius] Every one follows the inclinations of his own nature. [Lat., Naturae sequitur semina quisque suae.] - Elegioe (III, 9, 20) [Nature] I am climbing a difficult road; but the glory gives me strength. - Elegioe (IV, 10, 3) [Glory] There is something beyond the grave; death does not put an end to everything the dark shade escapes from the consumed pile. [Lat., Sund aliquid Manes; letum non omnia finit. Luridaque evictos effugit umbra rogos.] - Elegioe (IV, 7, 1) [Immortality]
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