 Although strength should fail, the effort will deserve praise. In great enterprises the attempt is enough. |
| No rival will steal away my sure love; that glory will be my gray hair. |
| Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent. |
| Love never offers to anyone wings so easy that he does not hold him back with his other hand. |
| Afflicted by love's madness all are blind. |
| Even a faithful mistress can be bent by constant threats. |
| Tell me who is able to keep his bed chaste, or which goddess is able to live with one god alone? |
| Among absent lovers, ardor always fares better. |
| I am climbing a difficult road; but the glory gives me strength. |
| Age makes all things greater after their death; a name comes to the tongue easier from the grave. |
| 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. |
| Love can be put off, never abandoned. |
| Not only the bull attacks his enemies with curved horn, but also the sheep, when harmed fights back. |
| Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away. |
| Let each man pass his days in that wherein his skill is greatest. |
| Anyone who is an enemy of mine, let him love women, but let he who is my friend rejoice in men. |
