FastSaying
Embarrassment of riches. [Fr., Embarras des richesse.]
Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
Wealth
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Riches, the incentives to evil, are dug out of the earth. [Lat., Effodiuntur opes irritamenta malorum.]
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The ungovernable passion for wealth. [Lat., Opum furiata cupido.]
— Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
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Nor is there any law more just, than that he who has plotted death shall perish by his own plot. [Lat., Neque enim lex est aequior ulla, Quam necis artifices arte perire sua.]
— Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
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That load becomes light which is cheerfully borne. [Lat., Leve fit quod bene fertur onus.]
— Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
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The wounded gladiator forswears all fighting, but soon forgetting his former wound resumes his arms. [Lat., Saucius ejurat pugnam gladiator, et idem Immemor antiqui vulneris arma capit.]
— Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
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