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Ovid

Fair peace becomes men ferocious anger belongs to beasts.

anger


Ovid

Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.

anger


Ovid

Art lies by its own artifice.

art


Ovid

Beauty is a fragile gift.

beauty


Ovid

Time is generally the best doctor.

best


Ovid

The bold adventurer succeeds the best.

best


Ovid

Habits change into character.

change


Ovid

The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool.

cool


Ovid

Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

courage


Ovid

An evil life is a kind of death.

death


Ovid

Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.

death


Ovid

Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.

fear


Ovid

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

fear


Ovid

Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.

good


Ovid

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

happiness


Ovid

My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.

hope


Ovid

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

hope


Ovid

Fortune and love favor the brave.

love


Ovid

All love is vanquished by a succeeding love.

love


Ovid

Time is generally the best doctor.

medical


Ovid

Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.

medical


Ovid

Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships the poor man everywhere lies low.

money


Ovid

First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, 'I believe,' three times.

morning


Ovid

Fortune and love favor the brave.

courage


Ovid

Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

courage


Ovid

Deadly poisons are concealed under sweet honey.

cunning


Ovid

Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.

fear


Ovid

Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength.

grief


Ovid

Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves.

idleness


Ovid

Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him, Easy-going enough once you acknowledge his power.

love


Ovid

Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.

love


Ovid

Luck affects everything. let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish.

luck


Ovid

What makes men indifferent to their wives is that they can see them when they please.

marriage


Ovid

If it were in my power, I would be wiser; but a newly felt power carries me off in spite of myself; love leads me one way, my understanding another.

power


Ovid

Time, motion and wine cause sleep.

sleep


Ovid

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

suffer


Ovid

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

women


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