Ovid

Believe me, the gods spare the afflicted, and do not always oppress those who are unfortunate.

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“Barbarus hic ego sum, quia non intelligor illis. (In this place I am a barbarian, because men do not understand me.)”

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Calumny ever pursues the great, even as the winds hurl themselves on high places.

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As the mind of each man is conscious of good or evil, so does he conceive within his breast hope or fear,…

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In an easy cause anyone can be eloquent; the slightest strength is enough to break what is already shattered.

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Here Jove with Hermes came; but in disguise Of mortal men conceal'd their deities; One laid aside his thunder, one his rod

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That fair face will as years roll on lose its beauty, and old age will bring its wrinkles to the brow.

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It warms the blood, adds luster to the eyes, and wine and love have ever been allies.

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Love is too prone to trust. Would I could think My charges false and all too rashly made.

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Adde, quod ingénues didicisse fideliter artes Emollit mores, nec sinit esse fervos. To be instructed in the arts, softens the manners and…

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I could not possibly count the gold-digging ruses of women, Not if I had ten mouths, not if I had ten tongues.

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“My purpose is to tell of bodies that have been changed into shapes of different kinds.”

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A broken fortune is like a falling column; the lower it sinks, the greater weight it has to sustain.

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Nor is there any law more just, than that he who has plotted death shall perish by his own plot.

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Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us…

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The most wretched fortune is safe; for there is no fear of anything worse. [Lat., Fortuna miserrima tuta est: Nam timor eventus…

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Not for any one man's delight has Nature made the sun, the wind, the waters; all are free.

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Niobe would have been called most blessed of mothers, had she not seemed so herself.

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Man's last day must ever be awaited and none to be counted happy until his death, until his last funeral rites are…

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Meet the disorder in the outset, the medicine may be too late, when the disease has gained ground through delay.

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Every man should stay within his own fortune. [Lat., Intera fortunam quisque debet manere suam.]

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It is no less a feat to keep what you have, than to increase it. In one there is chance, the other…

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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

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A good disposition is a virtue in itself, and it is lasting; the burden of the years cannot depress it, and love…

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The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

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My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope. [Lat., Et res non semper, spes mihi semper adest.]

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Winged time glides on insensibly, and deceive us; and there is nothing more fleeting than years.

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Seeking is all very well, but holding requires greater talent: Seeking involves some luck; now the demand is for skill.

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“Non inpune feres neque'' ait ''reddere Canenti, laesaque quid faciat, quid amans, quid femina disces rebus'' ait ''sed amans et laesa et…

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Knowest thou not that kings have long hands? [Lat., An nescis longos regibus esse manus?]

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Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts. [Lat., Candida pax homines, trux decet ira feras.]

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What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless.

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Who gives to Aristaeus honey; Or wine to Bacchus, or Triptolemus Earth's fruits, or apples to Alcinous?

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What we call birth Is but a beginning to be something else Than what we were before; and when we cease To…

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The love of fame usually spurs on the mind. [Lat., Ingenio stimulos subdere fama solet.]

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We covet what is guarded; the very care invokes the thief. Few love what they may have.

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According to the state of a man's conscience, so do hope and fear on account of his deeds arise in his mind.

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By constant dripping, water hollows stone, A signet-ring from use alone grows thin, And the curved plowshare by soft earth is worn.

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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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I attempt an arduous task but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement

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