Quotes by Sextus Propertius

Sextus Propertius

Roman poet

Lived from: 47 - 15

Category: Poets (Contemporary)

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• Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away.

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• In great things it is enough even to have willed.

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• The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.

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Subjects in these quotes:

• reverence
• ploughman
• shepherd
• details
• seaman
• wounds

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