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Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these
Love will enter cloaked in friendship's name.
Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.
It is the mind that makes the man.
Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him, Easy-going enough once you acknowledge his power.
What is harder than rock, or softer than water Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere.
There is a god within us, and we have intercourse with heaven. That spirit comes from abodes on high.
Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.
Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.
What is allowed us is disagreeable, what is denied us causes us intense desire.
Ovid - Amorum
Roman poet
43 - 17
My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.
We two are to ourselves a crowd.
All things change, nothing perishes.
We are slow to believe that which if believed would hurt our feelings.
Nothing in the entire universe ever perishes, believe me, but things vary, and adopt a new form. The phrase "being born" is used for beginning to be something different from what one was before, while "dying" means ceasing to be the same. Though this thing may pass into that, and that into this, yet the sums of things remains unchanged.
Ovid - Metamorphoses
Roman poet
43 - 17
We can learn even from our enemies.
Nothing is stronger than habit.
Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.
Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be fish.
Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.
Time the devourer of all things.
The result justifies the deed.
Judgement of beauty can err, what with the wine and the dark.
How little you know about the age you live in if you think that honey is sweeter than cash in hand.
To be loved, be lovable.
Dignity and love do not blend well, nor do they continue long together.
Take rest a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.
Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.
Tears at times have all the weight of speech.
Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.
By faithful study of the nobler arts, our nature's softened, and more gentle grows.
So I can't live either without you or with you.
Love is a kind of warfare.
Courage conquers all things.
There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.
The cause is hidden. The effect is visible to all.
All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.
It's useful that there should be Gods, so let's believe there are.
The result justifies the deed. (Exitus acta probat)
Ovid - Heorides (c. 10 BC)
Roman poet
43 - 17

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