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Publius Ovidius Naso
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Thanks are justly due for things got without purchase. [Lat., Gratia pro rebus merito debetur inemtis.]
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He who has it in his power to commit sin, is less inclined to do so. The very idea of being able, weakens the desire.
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It is lawful to be taught by an enemy. Fas est ab hoste doceri.
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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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Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.
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It's useful that there should be Gods, so let's believe there are.
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All things human hang by a slender thread and that which seemed to stand strong suddenly falls and sinks in ruins.
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Love and dignity do not dwell together.
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The gods behold all righteous actions.
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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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The raven once in snowy plumes was drest, White as the whitest dove's unsullied breast, Fair as the guardian of the Capitol, Soft as the swan a large and lovely fowl His tongue, his prating tongue had changed him quite To sooty blackness from the purest white.
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It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are.
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Destroy our leisure and you break love's bow.
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He who has lived obscurely and quietly has lived well.
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Tempus edax rerum. Time the devourer of everything.
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Envy depreciates the genius of the great Homer.
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The wit of man has devised cruel statutes, And nature oft permits what is by law forbid.
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Presents, believe me, seduce both men and gods.
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The vulgar crowd values friends according to their usefulness.
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Little things please little minds.
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