Ovid

The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.

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Beauty is a frail good.

— Ovid

Envy aims very high.

— Ovid

Love is full of anxious fears.

— Ovid

Venus favors the bold.

— Ovid

Love is a credulous thing.

— Ovid

There is a certain pleasure in weeping.

— Ovid

Love is no assignment for cowards.

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The time will come when you will hate the sight of a mirror.

— Ovid

Though the strength is lacking, yet the willingness is commendable.

— Ovid

Every lover is a soldier. (Love is a warfare.) [Lat., Militat omnis amans.]

— Ovid

Chastity, once lost, cannot be recalled; it goes only once.

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Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned.

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That pleasure which can be safely indulged in is the least inviting.

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Dear to girls' hearts is their own beauty.

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Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.

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Passion persuades me one way, reason another. I see the better and approve it, but I follow the worse.

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In the make-up of human beings, intelligence counts for more than our hands, and that is our true strength.

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The wit of man has devised cruel statutes, And nature oft permits what is by law forbid.

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We two [Deucalion and Pyrrha, after the deluge] form a multitude. [Lat., Nos duo turba sumus.]

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The swallow is not ensnared by men because of its gentle nature. [Lat., At caret insidiis hominum, quia mitis, hirundo.]

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It is hope which makes the shipwrecked sailor strike out with his arms in the midst of the sea, though no land…

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The cause is hidden, but the result is known. [Lat., Causa latet: vis est notissima.]

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Wine stimulates the mind and makes it quick with heat; care flees and is dissolved in much drink.

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When worse may yet befall, there's room for prayer, But when our fortune's at its lowest ebb, We trample fear beneath our…

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Truly it is allowed us to weep: by weeping we disperse our wrath; and tears go through the heart, even like a…

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Money nowadays is money; money brings office; money gains friends; everywhere the poor man is down. [Lat., In pretio pretium nunc est;…

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Friendship is but a name, faith is an empty name. Alas, it is not safe to praise to a friend the object…

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“Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.”…

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Man should ever look to his last day, and no one should be called happy before his funeral. [Lat., Ultima semper Expectanda…

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The wounded limb shrinks from the slightest touch; and a slight shadow alarms the nervous. [Lat., Membra reformidant mollem quoque saucia tactum:…

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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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Love fed fat soon turns to boredom.

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Time is the devourer of all things.

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Small minds are captivated by trifles.

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The gods behold all righteous actions.

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Every lover is a soldier.

— Ovid

If you want to be loved, be lovable.

— Ovid

We two are to ourselves a crowd.

— Ovid

God himself favors the brave.

— Ovid