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When the character's right, looks are a greater delight.

Ovid

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Ovid
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Publius Ovidius Naso
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Ere land and sea and the all-covering sky Were made, in the whole world the countenance Of nature was the same, all one, well named Chaos, a raw and undivided mass, Naught but a lifeless bulk, with warring seeds Of ill-joined elements compressed together.
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Envy depreciates the genius of the great Homer.
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Tears are at times as eloquent as words. [Weeping hath a voice.]
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Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.
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Giving calls for genius.
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Pursuits become habits.
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Tis not always in a physician's power to cure the sick at times the disease is stronger than trained art.
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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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The most wretched fortune is safe for there is no fear of anything worse. [Lat., Fortuna miserrima tuta est: Nam timor eventus deterioris abest.]
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Tis on the living Envy feeds. She silent grows When, after death, man's honor is his guard. So I, when on the pyre consumed I lie, Shall live, for all that's noblest will survive.
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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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I attempt an arduous task but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement
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When all the other animals, downcast looked upon the earth, he [Prometheus] gave a face raised on high to man, and commanded him to see the sky and raise his high eyes to the stars.
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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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It's a kindness that the mind can go where it wishes.
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