Ovid

Time is generally the best doctor.

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Daring is not safe against daring men.

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If God be my friend, I cannot be wretched.

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Art is most effective when concealed.

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An injury may prove a blessing.

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Beauty- it was a favor bestowed by the gods.

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Happy the man who can count his sufferings.

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By yielding you may obtain victory

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Hastiness is the beginning of wrath, and its end repentance.

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Honesty, by evil fortune tried, Finds in adversity the seed of praise.

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When the character's right, looks are a greater delight.

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Rest strengthens the body, the mind too is thus supported; but unremitting toil destroys both.

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Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts.

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The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late.

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When the heart is sick it cannot bear the slightest annoyance.

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You put aside the work that's done, and seek some work to do.

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Face troubles from their birth, for 'tis too late to cure When long delay has given the evil strength. Haste then; postpone…

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Those gifts are ever the most acceptable which the giver makes precious. [Lat., Acceptissima semper munera sunt auctor quae pretiosa facit.]

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All-devouring time, envious age, Nought can escape you, and by slow degrees, Worn by your teeth, all things will lingering die.

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The mind conscious of innocence despises false reports: but we are a set always ready to believe a scandal.

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Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying makes the…

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Indulgent gods, grant me to sin once with impunity. That is sufficient. Let a second offence bear its punishment.

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The rest of the crowd were friends of my fortune, not of me. [Lat., Caetera fortunae, non mea, turba fuit.]

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The sea's vast depths lie open to the fish; Wherever the breezes blow the bird may fly; So to the brave man…

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The raven once in snowy plumes was drest, White as the whitest dove's unsullied breast, Fair as the guardian of the Capitol,…

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All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are…

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In your judgment virtue requires no reward, and is to be sought for itself, unaccompanied by external benefits. [Lat., Judice te mercede…

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“I got nervous at bulls and eagles, Trying to figure what shape Zeus might take for sex When it could be your…

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We are all bound thither; we are hastening to the same common goal. Black death calls all things under the sway of…

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Tempore difficiles veniunt ad aratra juvenci; Tempore lenta pati frena docentur equi. In time the unmanageable young oxen come to the plough;…

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Our native land charms us with inexpressible sweetness, and never never allows us to forget that we belong to it. [Lat., Nescio…

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Skilled in every trick, a worthy heir of his paternal craft, he would make black look like white, and white look black.…

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“You ask perhaps if one should take the maid herself? Such a plan brings the greatest risk with it. In one case,…

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From high Meonia's rocky shores I came, Of poor decsent, Acoetes is my name, My sire was measly born: no oxen ploughed,…

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“Venus of Eryx, from her mountain throne, Saw Hades and clasped her swift-winged son, and said: 'Cupid, my child, my warrior, my…

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Beauty is a fragile gift.

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When a rose dies, a thorn is left behind.

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Keep a mid course between two extremes.

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It is the act of a coward to wish for death.

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An evil life is a kind of death.

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