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When disposition wins us, the features please.

Ovid

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Ovid
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Publius Ovidius Naso
P. Ovidius Naso
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If you have a voice, sing but if you have good arms, then go in for dancing.
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Deadly poisons are concealed under sweet honey.
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Grant me profits only, grant me the joy of profit made, and see to it that I enjoy cheating the buyer!
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You will go most safely in the middle.
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In war the olive branch of peace is of use. [Lat., Adjuvat in bello pacatae ramus olivae.]
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That load becomes light which is cheerfully borne.
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Presents, believe me, seduce both men and gods.
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Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.
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If he should love deny him what he loves!
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As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.
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That tuneful nymph, the babbling Echo.
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I would that you were either less beautiful, or less corrupt. Such perfect beauty does not suit such imperfect morals. [Lat., Aut formosa fores minus, aut minus improba vellem. Non facit ad mores tam bona forma malos.]
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Friendship is but a name, faith is an empty name. Alas, it is not safe to praise to a friend the object of your love as soon as he believes your praises, he slips into your place.
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Add little to little and there will be a big pile.
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The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool.
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Sleep ... peace of the soul, who puttest care to flight.
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Love is a thing that is full of cares and fears.
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Thou beginnest better than thou endest. The last is inferior to the first. [Lat., Coepisti melius quam desinis. Ultima primis cedunt.]
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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 morte dolores.]
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All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward all things are brought into being with a changing nature the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.
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