Love is a kind of military service
No thanks attach to a kindness long deferred.
When I was from Cupid's passions free, my Muse was mute and wrote no elegy.
A boar is often held by a not-so-large dog.
When all the other animals, downcast looked upon the earth, he [Prometheus] gave a face raised on high to man, and commanded him to see the sky and raise his high eyes to the stars.
Gutta cavat lapidem, non vi sed saepe cadendo. (The drop excavates the stone, not with force but by falling often.)