Famous Quotes | Allow me, whom Fortune always...

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. - Propertius Sextus
Attribution: Propertius Sextus (c. 50–16 B.C.), Roman elegist. Oxford Classical Text, I.6. 25-28.

Categories: Death, Elegist, Love

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