Propertius Sextus quotes

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Love can be put off, never abandoned.
If you see anything, always deny that you've seen; or if perchance something pains you, deny that you're hurt.
Although sleep pressed upon my closing eyelids, and the moon, on her horses, blushed in the middle of the sky, nevertheless I coul ...
Meanwhile I, deserted, was lamenting a little to myself your long delays in foreign loves, until sleep with its pleasing wings com ...
Henceforth may the neglected lover constantly read me, and may my troubles, once they are known, be of some benefit to him.
Just as petals fall from drying garlands, which you can see aimlessly swimming in wine-bowls are we lovers, who now puff up our ch ...
At last, an injury suffered brings you back to my bed, expelling you from the doors of another!
Faith is not sure, if you cannot turn love to quarrel; may my enemies obtain a mild mistress.
But her shape is the least of my madness; she has things by which it is more pleasing to die.
Age makes all things greater after their death; a name comes to the tongue easier from the grave.
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