Ovid

Love is a kind of warfare.

— Ovid

“Darkness makes any woman fair.”

— Ovid

The act is judged of by the event.

— Ovid

A bitter drug oft brings relief.

— Ovid

Love is an affair of credulity.

— Ovid

Often they benefit who suffer wrong.

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Giving calls for genius.

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Tempus fugit (time flies).

— Ovid

He who can simulate sanity will be sane.

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If you are not ready today, you will be even less so tomorrow.

— Ovid

A field becomes exhausted by constant tillage.

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If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

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There is no excellence uncoupled with difficulties.

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Remove the temptation of idleness and Cupid's bow is useless.

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Add little to little and there will be a big pile.

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Dear to the heart of a girl is her own beauty and charm.

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Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships, the poor man everywhere lies low.

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Brass shines with constant usage, a beautiful dress needs wearing,Leave a house empty, it rots.

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The iron ring is worn out by constant use. [Lat., Ferreus assiduo consumitur anulus usu.]

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See that you promise: what harm is there in promise? In promises anyone can be rich.

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She that weds well will wisely match her love, Nor be below her husband nor above.

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By faithful study of the nobler arts, our nature's softened, and more gentle grows.

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Envy, slothful vice, Never makes its way in lofty characters, But, like the skulking viper, creeps and crawls Close to the ground.

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“Our native land charms us with inexpressible sweetness, and never, never allows us to forget that we belong to it.”

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As God is propitiated by the blood of a hundred bulls, so also is he by the smallest offering of incense. [Lat.,…

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With wavering steps does fickle fortune stray, Nowhere she finds a firm and fixed abode; But now all smiles, and now again…

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Fair Flora! Now attend thy sportful feast, Of which some days I with design have past; A part in April and a…

— Ovid

Thou fool, what is sleep but the image of death? Fate will give an eternal rest. [Lat., Stulte, quid est somnus, gelidae…

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We beg one hour of death, that neither she With widow's tears may live to bury me, Nor weeping I, with wither'd…

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The mind is sicker than the sick body; in contemplation of its sufferings it becomes hopeless. [Lat., Corpore sed mens est aegro…

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You start in April and cross to the time of May One has you as it leaves, one as it comes Since…

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Sleep, thou repose of all things; sleep, thou gentlest of the deities; thou peace of the mind, from which care flies; who…

— Ovid

“Their love was equal; on the hills they roamed together, and together they would go back to their cave; and this time…

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“When he, whoever of the gods it was, had thus arranged in order and resolved that chaotic mass, and reduced it, thus…

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“And when wine has soaked Cupid’s drunken wings, he’s stayed, weighed down, a captive of the place. ... Wine rouses courage and…

— Ovid

“The god of Delos, proud in victory, Saw Cupid draw his bow's taut arc, and said: 'Mischievous boy, what are a brave…

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“There is a place at the centre of the World, between the zones of earth, sea, and sky, at the boundary of…

— Ovid

Time, the devourer of all things.

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There is a divinity within our breast.

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You will go most safely in the middle.

— Ovid