“There is no penalty attached to a lover's oath.”
Maxim 23
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
Fragment 848.
Phædra
“There is no penalty attached to a lover's oath.”
Maxim 23
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
“Jupiter laughs at the false oaths of lovers.”
Periuria ridet amantum<br/>Iuppiter.
Periuria ridet amantum
Iuppiter.
Bk. 3, no. 6, line 49.
Misattributed
“This too can be endured, though it is hard:
A lover in the end has his reward.”
Premio al ben servire
Pur viene al fin, se ben tarda a venire.
Canto XXXI, stanza 3 (tr. B. Reynolds)
Orlando Furioso (1532)
“The brightest attractions to the lover too often prove the husband's greatest torments”
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XVI : The Warning of Experience; Mr. Boarham to Helen
The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Æneis
“Who can deceive a lover?”
Quis fallere possit amantem?
Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book IV, Line 296
“You miss the point? The lady that spares her lover spares herself too little.”
Asinaria, Act I, scene 3.
Asinaria (The One With the Asses)