Ovid

A pleasing face is no small advantage.

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All things can corrupt perverse minds.

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Neglect of appearance becomes men.

— Ovid

Whatever charm thou hast, be charming.

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Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

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Idleness ruins the constitution

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Habit had made the custom.

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First appearance deceives many.

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Pure women are only those who have not been asked.

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A gift in time of need is most acceptable.

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Envy, the meanest of vices, creeps on the ground like a serpent.

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The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.

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Envy depreciates the genius of the great Homer.

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Giving requires good sense. [Lat., Rest est ingeniosa dare.]

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Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.

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The mind alone can not be exiled. [Lat., Mens sola loco non exulat.]

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I attempt a difficult work; but there is no excellence without difficulty. [Lat., Ardua molimur; sed nulla nisi ardua virtus.]

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What is harder than stone? What more soft than water? Nevertheless hard though the rock be, it is hollowed by the wave.

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For this reason, if you believe proverbs, let me tell you the common one: "It is unlucky to marry in May.

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Consider the misfortunes of others, and you will be the better able to bear your own.

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Had I not sinned what would there be for you to pardon. My fate has given you the opportunity for mercy.

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Work while your strength and years permit you; crooked age will by-and-by come upon you with silent foot.

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“you put too much faith in the power of the gods, if you think they can give and take away the shape…

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Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.

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Those dreams are true which we have in the morning, as the lamp begins to flicker. [Lat., Namque sub Aurora jam dormitante…

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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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Writings survive the years; it is by writings that you know Agamemnon, and those who fought for or against him. [Lat., Scripta…

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By arts, sails, and oars, ships are rapidly moved; arts move the light chariot, and establish love. [Lat., Arte citae veloque rates…

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“My soul would sing of metamorphoses. But since, o gods, you were the source of these bodies becoming other bodies, breathe your…

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A red rose peeping through a white? Or else a cherry (double graced) Within a lily? Centre placed? Or ever marked the…

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If thou wishest to put an end to love, attend to business (love yields to employment); then thou wilt be safe. [Lat.,…

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May you live unenvied, and pass many pleasant years unknown to fame; and also have congenial friends. [Lat., Vive sine invidia, mollesque…

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This victory will be your I ruin.

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Time, motion and wine cause sleep.

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Nothing is swifter than our years.

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Pleasant words are the food of love.

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A safe pleasure is a tame pleasure.

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Love is a thing full of anxious fears.

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Against the bold, daring is unsafe.

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A short absence is safest

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