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When disposition wins us, the features please.

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Ovid
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Publius Ovidius Naso
P. Ovidius Naso
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The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.
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The cause is hidden the effect is visible to all.
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What is allowed us is disagreeable, what is denied us causes us intense desire.
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A field becomes exhausted by constant tillage.
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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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We are slow to believe that which if believed would hurt our feelings.
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Time is a stream which glides smoothly on and is past before we know.
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I am dragged along by a strange new force. Desire and reason are pulling in different directions. I see the right way and approve it, but follow the wrong.
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In your judgment virtue requires no reward, and is to be sought for itself, unaccompanied by external benefits. [Lat., Judice te mercede caret, per seque petenda est Externis virtus incomitata bonis.]
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Poetry comes fine-spun from a mind at peace.
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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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You can learn from anyone even your enemy.
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All human things hang on a slender thread, the strongest fall with a sudden crash.
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Judgement of beauty can err, what with the wine and the dark.
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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 paid.
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First try all other means, but if the wound Heal not, then use the knife, lest to the clean From the diseased the canker spread.
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The deeds of men never escape the gods. [Lat., Acta deos nunquam mortalia fallunt.]
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Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves.
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What is without periods of rest will not endure.
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