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I have known sorrow and learned to aid the wretched.
Love conquers all; therefore, let us submit to love.
If one swain scorns you, you will soon find another.
If only Jupiter would restore me those bygone years.
Then endure for a while, and live for a happier day!
He like a rock in the sea unshaken stands his ground.
The leader of the deed was a woman. -Dux femina facti
How can there be such anger in the minds of the gods?
It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep may be.
Audaces fortuna iuvat (latin)- Fortune favors the bold.
Facilis decensus averni. The descent into hell is easy.
What region of the earth is not full of our calamities?
But meanwhile time flies; it flies never to be regained.
Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.
Consider what each soil will bear, and what each refuses
Nunc scio quit sit amor." Lat., "Now I know what love is.
The only safety for the conquered is to expect no safety.
Confidence cannot find a place wherein to rest in safety.
The wavering multitude is divided into opposite factions.
Consider what each soil will bear, and what each refuses.
There should be no strife with the vanquished or the dead.
Yield thou not to adversity, but press on the more bravely.
Persevere and preserve yourselves for better circumstances.
Even virtue is fairer when it appears in a beautiful person.
Love begets love, love knows no rules, this is same for all.
Such is the love of praise, so great the anxiety for victory.
In strife who inquires whether stratagem or courage was used?
Who asks whether the enemy was defeated by strategy or valor?
Curst greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power has caused.
Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things.
Let not our proposal be disregarded on the score of our youth.
From my example learn to be just, and not to despise the gods.
Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.
Maybe one day we shall be glad to remember even these hardships.
If I am unable to make the gods above relent, I shall move hell.
Let us go singing as far as we go: the road will be less tedious.
Perhaps even these things, one day, will be pleasing to remember.
Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the unfortunate.
O accursed hunger of gold, to what dost thou not compel human hearts!
Not being untutored in suffering, I learn to pity those in affliction
Cease to think that the decrees of the gods can be changed by prayers.
The flocks fear the wolf, the crops the storm, and the trees the wind.
She nourishes the poison in her veins and is consumed by a secret fire.
Sing in me, muse, of arms and a man, who first from the shores of Troy.
Angels boast ethereal vigor, and are formed from seeds of heavenly birth.
Perhaps the day may come when we shall remember these sufferings with joy.
Enter on the way of training while the spirits in youth are still pliable.
Whatever may happen, every kind of fortune is to be overcome by bearing it.
A shifty, fickle object is woman, always. (Varium et mutabile semper femina.)
O you who have borne even heavier things, to these too, God will grant an end!