When I was from Cupid's passions free, my Muse was mute and wrote no elegy.
I attempt an arduous task but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement
No thanks attach to a kindness long deferred.
Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.
When you have set yourself a task finish it.
Remove but the temptations of leisure, and the bow of Cupid will lose its effect.