Fame due to the achievements of the mind never perishes.
Afflicted by love's madness all are blind.
Make room, Roman writers, make room for Greek writers; something greater than the Iliad is born.
I say as an expert, no one is faithful in love -Expertus dico, nemo est in amore fidelis
Allow me, whom Fortune always desires to bury, lay down my life in these final trivialities. Many have freely died in longlasting loves, among whose number may the earth cover me as well.
Tell me who is able to keep his bed chaste, or which goddess is able to live with one god alone?