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Ovid
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Publius Ovidius Naso
P. Ovidius Naso
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When disposition wins us, the features please.
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Nothing is so high and above all danger that is not below and in the power of God. [Lat., Nihil ita sublime est, supraque pericula tendit Non sit ut inferius suppositumque deo.]
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Envy feeds on the living, after death it rests, then the honor of a man protects him.
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Thus all things altered. Nothing dies. And here and there the unbodied spirit flies.
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Sleep ... peace of the soul, who puttest care to flight.
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Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.
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Men should not care too much for good looks neglect is becoming.
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God gave man an upright countenance to survey the heavens, and to look upward to the stars.
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