Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves.
Against the bold, daring is unsafe.
It is not safe to despise what Love commands. He reigns supreme, and rules the mighty gods.
When I was from Cupid's passions free, my Muse was mute and wrote no elegy.
Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.
A good disposition is a virtue in itself, and it is lasting; the burden of the years cannot depress it, and love that is founded on it endures to the end.