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Publius Ovidius Naso
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An evil life is a kind of death.
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The mind conscious of innocence despises false reports: but we are a set always ready to believe a scandal.
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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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Nothing is stronger than habit.
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Giving requires good sense. [Lat., Rest est ingeniosa dare.]
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These are the evils which result from gossiping habits.
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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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An injury may prove a blessing.
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When I was from Cupid's passions free, my Muse was mute and wrote no elegy.
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When the character's right, looks are a greater delight.
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Anything cracked will shatter at a touch.
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The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.
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Skilled in every trick, a worthy heir of his paternal craft, he would make black look like white, and white look black. [Lat., Furtum ingeniosus ad omne, Qui facere assueret, patriae non degener artis, Candida de nigris, et de candentibus atra.]
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Hastiness is the beginning of wrath, and its end repentance.
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Women can always be caught that's the first rule of the game.
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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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The wit of man has devised cruel statutes, And nature oft permits what is by law forbid.
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The mind is sicker than the sick body in contemplation of its sufferings it becomes hopeless. [Lat., Corpore sed mens est aegro magis aegra malique In circumspectu stat sine fine sui.]
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As many as the shells that are on the shore, so many are the pains of love the darts that wound are steeped in much poison.
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There is a deity within us who breathes that divine fire by which we are animated.
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