Among absent lovers, ardor always fares better |
Every man now worships gold; all other reverence being done away |
Give the historians something to write about |
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 |
In great things it is enough even to have willed. |
The law itself follows gold |
The law itself follows gold |
The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep. (Elegies) |