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Birth and ancestry, and that which we have not ourselves achieved, we can scarcely call our own


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OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) Pedigree and ancestry and what we ourselves have not achieved, I scarcely recognize as our own.
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ALDOUS HUXLEY We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.
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TOM ROBBINS We can provide our own security. We can police ourselves.
BETTY THOMAS We've got exactly what we need to fulfill our destiny!
ABHISHEK KUMAR It is not the errors of others, but our own miscalculations, on which we wreak our lasting vengeance...
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OVID Either do not attempt at all, or go through with it.
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OVID Although they posses enough, and more than enough still they yearn for more.
OVID As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.
OVID This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.
OVID If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.
OVID Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
OVID Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.
OVID If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.
OVID How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.
OVID everything changes, nothing perishes
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OVID The burden which is well borne becomes light.
OVID Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.
OVID People are slow to believe that, which if believed would work them harm.
OVID When he, whoever of the gods it was, had thus arranged in order and resolved that chaotic mass, and ...
OVID Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.
OVID The drop hollows the stone not by force but by often falling.
OVID Always have your hook baited, in the pool you least think, there will be a fish.
OVID Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.
OVID That you may please others you must be forgetful of yourself.
OVID The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late.
OVID Neglect of appearance becomes men.
OVID When disposition wins us, the features please.
OVID The time will come when it will disgust you to look in the mirror.
OVID People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.
OVID In an easy matter. Anybody can be eloquent.
OVID To give requires good sense.
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OVID Forbear to lay the guilt of a few on the many.
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OVID A man is sorry to be honest for nothing.
OVID It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.
OVID Envy feeds on the living, after death it rests, then the honor of a man protects him.
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OVID Remove the temptation of idleness and cupids bow is useless.
OVID Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.
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OVID You will go most safely in the middle.
OVID Gifts, believe me, captivate both men and Gods, Jupiter himself was won over and appeased by gifts.
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OVID The bold adventurer succeeds the best.
OVID Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.
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OVID We two are to ourselves a crowd.
OVID The cause is hidden. The effect is visible to all.
OVID Tears at times have all the weight of speech.
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OVID Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength.
OVID First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, "I believe," three times.
OVID All things change; nothing perishes
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OVID Let what is irksome become habitual, no more will it trouble you.
OVID The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.
OVID I flee who chases me, and chase who flees me
OVID Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.
OVID Dear to the heart of a girl is her own beauty and charm
OVID What makes men indifferent to their wives is that they can see them when they please.
OVID Everyone is a millionaire where promises are concerned
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OVID She half consents who silently denies
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OVID And besides, we lovers fear everything
OVID Barbarus hic ego sum, quia non intelligor illis.

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OVID Omnia mutantur, nihil interit (everything changes, nothing perishes).
OVID Fas est ab hoste doceri.
One should learn even from one's enemies.
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