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Ovid


Roman poet known to the English-speaking world as Ovid, wrote on topics of love, abandoned women, and mythological transformations.
Ovid
Video meliora, proboque, deteriora sequor.
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Medio tutissimus ibis.
Ovid
Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.




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Pure women are only those who have not been asked.
Ovid
Fas est et ab hoste doceri.
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In the winter season,
For seven days of calm, Alcyone
Broods over her nest on the surface of the waters
While the sea-waves are quiet. Through this time
Aeolus keeps his winds at home, and ocean
Is smooth for his descendants' sake.
Ovid
Then the omnipotent Father with his thunder made Olympus tremble, and from Ossa hurled Pelion.
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Nocte latent mendae, vitioque ignoscitur omni, Horaque formosam quamlibet illa facit.
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Chaos, rudis indigestaque moles.
Ovid
Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.
Ovid
Poetry comes fine-spun from a mind at peace.




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It is the mind that makes the man, and our vigour is in our immortal soul.
Ovid
Qui nolet fieri desidiosus, amet!
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Iam seges est ubi Troia fuit.
Ovid
Exitus acta probat.
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Ut ameris, amabilis esto.
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So long as you are secure you will count many friends; if your life becomes clouded you will be alone.
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Expedit esse deos, et, ut expedit, esse putemus.
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Nothing is stronger than habit.
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Inopem me copia fecit.


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