Ovid

When you have set yourself a task finish it.

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Destroy our leisure and you break love's bow.

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In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are.

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Love will enter cloaked in friendship's name.

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Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.

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The mightiest rivers lose their force when split up into several streams.

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O ye gods! what thick encircling darkness blinds the minds of men!

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A man is sorry to be honest for nothing.

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All things human hang by a slender thread; and that which seemed to stand strong suddenly falls and sinks in ruins.

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There is a god within us, and the heavens Have intercourse with earth; from realms above That spirit comes.

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Nothing aids which may not also injure us. Fire serves us well, but he who plots to burn His neighbor's roof arms…

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Death is not grievous to me, for I shall lay aside my pains by death. [Lat., Nec mihi mors gravis est posituro…

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And I will capture your minds with sweet novelty. [Lat., Dulcique animos novitate tenebo.]

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Alluring pleasure is said to have softened the savage dispositions (of early mankind). [Lat., Blanda truces animos fertur mollisse voluptas.]

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Every one who repeats it adds something to the scandal. [The rolling snow-ball.]

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

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Even the gods are moved by the voice of entreaty.

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We have ploughed the vast ocean in a fragile bark.

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Majesty and love do not well agree, nor do they live together.

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Wherever I look there is nothing but the image of death.

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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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A pleasing countenance is no slight disadvantage. [Lat., Auxilium non leve vultus habet.]

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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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He who has it in his power to commit sin, is less inclined to do so. The very idea of being able,…

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Sleep, rest of things, O pleasing Deity, Peace of the soul, which cares dost crucify, Weary bodies refresh and mollify.

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There is no brotherhood between love and dignity, Nor can they share the same abode.

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Live without envy, spend your peaceful years Unknown to fame, and choose your peers for friends.

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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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“Hurry to your goal together. That is full bliss when man and woman lie equally conquered.”

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Lente, lente currite, noctis equi. Translation: Run slowly, slowly, horses of the night.

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Thanks are justly due for things got without purchase. [Lat., Gratia pro rebus merito debetur inemtis.]

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Riches too increase, and the maddening craving for gold, So that men ever seek for more, that they may have the most.

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Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.

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There is no such thing as pure, unalloyed pleasure; some bitter ever mingles with the sweet.

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All human things hang on a slender thread, the strongest fall with a sudden crash.

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“Qui non est hodie eras minus aptus erit. He who is not prepared today will be less so tomorrow. ”

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Who would have known of Hector, if Troy had been happy? The road to valor is built by adversity.

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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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Either you pursue or push, O Sisyphus, the stone destined to keep rolling. [Lat., Aut petis aut urgues ruiturum, Sisyphe, saxum.]

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