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A handful of men, inured to war, proceed to certain victory, while on the contrary, numerous armies of raw and undisciplined troops are but multitudes of men dragged to the slaughter.


Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

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OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) A field becomes exhausted by constant tillage. [Lat., Continua messe senescit ager.]
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OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) Like fragile ice anger passes away in time. [Lat., Ut fragilis glacies interit ira mora.]
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) Treat a thousand dispositions in a thousand ways. [Lat., Mille animos excipe mille modis.]
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) The whole earth is the brave man's country. [Lat., Omne solum forti patria est.]
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TERENCE (PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER) Knavery's now its own reward. [Lat., His nunc praemium est qui recta prava faciunt.]
TERENCE (PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER) Habit had made the custom. [Lat., Morem fecerat usus.]
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) Ill habits gather by unseen degrees, As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) Pursuits become habits. [Lat., Abeunt studia in mores.]
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) Nothing is stronger than habit. [Lat., Nil consuetudine majus.]
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OVID PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO Often a silent face has voice and words. [Lat., Saepe tacens vocem verbaque vultus habet.]
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OVID PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO Tears are at times as eloquent as words. [Weeping hath a voice.]
OVID PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO Take time: much may be gained by patience.
OVID PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO Small minds are captivated by trifles.
OVID PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO She only is chaste, who is chaste where there is no danger of detection: she who does not, because...
OVID PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO Riches too increase, and the maddening craving for gold, So that men ever seek for more, that they...
OVID PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO Rest strengthens the body, the mind too is thus supported; but unremitting toil destroys both.
OVID PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO Pride is innate in beauty, and haughtiness is the companion of the fair.
OVID PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO Pleasure is often the introduction to pain.
OVID PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO Pedigree and ancestry and what we ourselves have not achieved, I scarcely recognize as our own.
OVID PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO Our neighbour's crop is always more fruitful and his cattle produce more milk than our own.
OVID PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength. ...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) Envy depreciates the genius of the great Homer. [Lat., Ingenium magni detractat livor Homeri.]
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) Envy assails the noblest: the winds howl around the highest peaks. [Lat., Summa petit livor: pe...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) Envy feeds on the living. It ceases when they are dead. [Lat., Pascitur in vivis livor; post fata...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) It is a pleasure appropriate to man, for him to save a fellow-man, and gratitude is acquired in no ...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) If Jupiter hurled his thunderbolt as often as men sinned, he would soon be out of thunderbolts. [...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) He who has it in his power to commit sin, is less inclined to do so. The very idea of being able, ...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) Indulgent gods, grant me to sin once with impunity. That is sufficient. Let a second offence bear...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) Here shame dissuades him, there his fear prevails, And each by turns his aching heart assails.
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) I am not ashamed that these reproaches can be cast upon us, and that they can not be repelled. [L...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) Bear and forbear.
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) Diseases of the mind impair the bodily powers. [Lat., Vitiant artus aegrae contagia mentis.]
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) Sickness seizes the body from bad ventilation. [Lat., Aere non certo corpora languor habet.]
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) We do not bear sweets; we are recruited by a bitter potion. [Lat., Dulcia non ferimus; succo renov...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) It is something to hold the scepter with a firm hand. [Lat., Est aliquid valida sceptra tenere man...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) Knowest thou not that kings have long hands? [Lat., An nescis longos regibus esse manus?]
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) Birth and ancestry, and that which we have not ourselves achieved, we can scarcely call our own. ...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) Anger assists hands however weak. [Lat., Quamlibet infirmas adjuvat ira manus.]
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) The brave find a home in every land. [Lat., Omne solum forti patria est.]
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) Fortune and love favour the brave. [Lat., Audentum Forsque Venusque juvant.]
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) If it were in my power, I would be wiser; but a newly felt power carries me off in spite of myself;...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) Where crime is taught from early years, it becomes a part of nature. [Lat., Ars fit ubi a teneris...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting. [Lat., Poena potest demi, culpa perennis...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) What follows I flee; what flees I ever pursue. [Lat., Quod sequitur, fugio; quod fugit, usque sequ...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) The love of glory gives an immense stimulus. [Lat., Immensum gloria calcar habet.]
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) According to the state of a man's conscience, so do hope and fear on account of his deeds arise in ...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) Our native land attracts us with some mysterious charm, never to be forgotten.
OVID PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO Occupy yourself, and you will be out of harm's way.
OVID PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO No thanks attach to a kindness long deferred.
OVID PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO No herb can remedy the anguish of love.
OVID PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO Neither shall the wave, which has passed on, ever be recalled; nor can the hour, which has once fle...
OVID PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO My bark, once struck by the fury of the storm, dreads again to approach the place of danger.
OVID PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO Make good use of your time, it flies fast.
OVID PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO Mad desire, when it has the most, longs for more.
OVID PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO Love conquers all things; let us own her dominion.
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