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Et ignotas animum dimittit in artes.
And he sets his mind to unknown arts.


Ovid

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Artes, scientia, veritas [Arts, knowledge, truth]
MOTTO All the arts which belong to polished life have some common tie, and are connect as it were by some...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) We are extremely proud of that boy. He sets his mind to something and he just goes out and does it.
CAROLINE FRISBY Straining breaks the bow, and relaxation relieves the mind. [Lat., Arcum intensio frangit, animum ...
SYRUS PUBLILIUS SYRUS That man is great, and he alone,
Who serves a greatness not his own,
For neither praise nor pe...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON When Peter sets his mind to a thing," Tanngnost thought, "far be it from reason to stop him.
BROM When Bob sets his mind to doing something, it gets done.
DAVID HANCOCK He who fights with his hands exerts himself and tires he who fights with his mind wins"

R...
RASSOOL JIBRAEEL SNYMAN Perplext in faith, but pure in deeds,
At last he beat his music out.
There lives more fait...
ALFRED TENNYSON I let my head fall forward into his shoulder, breathing in his scent. "Now what do we do?"

JESSICA SORENSEN One true king knew when to step aside and give up the reins of power—to remove his crown and relin...
VERA NAZARIAN He had made a vow to defend his country against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
He’d neve...
LISA CARLISLE He sets people up -- he gets in there and draws defenders and sets his teammates up very well. He's ...
BRYAN WINKLER He never pretended to know about art or theater, but he knew the arts were important for the communi...
BOB BARTON Behind your thoughts and feelings, my brother, there is a mighty lord, an unknown sage - his name is...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE He's at his best with two strikes. He sets his mind on one pitch and it doesn't matter if it's on th...
TOM GRAHAM Wherever his faltering mind,
unsteadily wanders,
he should restrain it
and bring it u...
VIKRAM SETH Roberts is aggressive. He sets his sight on something and he achieves it.
GREG GORBATENKO To be loved, be lovable. -Ovid.
OVID The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind ...
RENE MAGRITTE With increasing age, dullness of mind and heart sets in.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI That is an artist as I love artists, modest in his needs: he really wants only two things, his bread...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE That man scorches with his brightness, who overpowers inferior capacities, yet he shall be revered ...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) Caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt.
(They change their sky, not their soul, who...
HORACE Le Chat

Viens, mon beau chat, sur mon coeur amoureux;
Retiens les griffes de...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Caged Bird

A free bird leaps on the back of the wind
and floats downstream ti...
MAYA ANGELOU J'ai perdu ma force et ma vie,
Et mes amis et ma gaieté;
J'ai perdu jusqu'à la fierté ALFRED DE MUSSET Kale's usually picky about who drives his car, 'he says, smiling again. 'But in this case, I don't t...
GWEN COLE He was in a strange, badly lit room, wearing even stranger clothes, getting an earful from an unknow...
ANGELO TSANATELIS Something new and unexpected, something hitherto unknown and undreamt of, had taken place in him. He...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY he placed his hands
on my mind
before reaching
for my waist
my hips
or my l...
RUPI KAUR Vasudeva listened with great attention. Listening carefully, he let
everything enter his mind, ...
HERMANN HESSE About the library," he whispered. He took out the pencil stub from his pocket and poised it over the...
LAURA WHITCOMB Modern man has lost the sense of wonder
about the unknown and he treats it as
an enemy.
LAURENS VAN DER POST He prays dictatorially. When it is sunshine,
he prays for rain, and when it is rain, he prays f...
THOMAS PAINE The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.
HENRY MILLER I haven’t been very impressed lately.
By people,
or places,
or the way someone said...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON Intoxication decontrols the mind and sets it free. The challenge lies in harnessing the power of the...
TAPAN GHOSH Under capitalism the common man enjoys amenities which in ages gone by were unknown and therefore in...
LUDWIG VON MISES The Man who with undaunted toils,/ sails unknown seas to unknown soils,/ With various wonders feasts...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Mr. Bradford," she said. "I'm not going to propose to you."

The twinkle in Mr. Bradford's...
HEATHER DIXON Ceza kaldırılabilir; ama suç insanın içinde sonsuza kadar yaşar.
OVID I drew him in my world;
I write him in my lines,
I want to be his girl,
he was never ...
LANG LEAV The misfortune of a young man who returns to his native land after years away is that he finds his n...
BRIAN W. ALDISS This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is good and to grieve at the opposite. ...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) O dieses ist das Tier, das es nicht giebt.
Sie wußtens nicht und habens jeden Falls
– s...
RAINER MARIA RILKE Her room was warm and lightsome. A huge doll sat with her legs apart in the copious easy-chair besid...
JAMES JOYCE A man leaves his great house because he's bored
With life at home, and suddenly returns,
F...
TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS Rash is he who at unknown doors relies on his good luck.
HáVAMáL Very well then! I'll write, write write. He let the words soak into his mind and displace all else.<...
RICHARD MATHESON WHAT IS TRUTH?

Truth is not a thing
Or a concept.
It is as multidimensional
SUZY KASSEM For a moment, he looks back at me, and his farewell is in his smile. Then he turns to the stars. BETH REVIS There are things known
and there are things unknown
and in between are the doors.
JIM MORRISON Reasons"

I wish I knew why he left. What his reason were. Why he changed his mind.
<...
LANG LEAV in Ovid, difficulty is what wakes up the genius (ingenium mala saepe movent),
NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB Naked a man comes from his mother’s womb,
and as he comes, so he departs.
He takes nothin...
KING SOLOMON He was a good spiritual kid. He had his mind and his heart in the right place.
JACK BURTON Defensa Contra las Artes Oscuras, pero las lecciones de Quirrell resultaron ser
J.K. ROWLING Et tu, Brute.
[You also, Brutus.]
JULIUS CAESAR Le malheur avait mis
les habits du mensonge
Ils étaient d’un beau rouge
couleur du...
JACQUES PRéVERT Fezzik's in trouble, bubble bubble,
His brain is just not in the pink,
His mind is rubble,...
WILLIAM GOLDMAN He definitely can play receiver. Coach Miles and them are pretty smart, so I don't think they would ...
CRAIG BRODIE Yes. Kissing. Overrated."

"I could change your mind," Zach said, surprising the hell out ...
TRACY SUMNER He has a great return of serve. He hits the ball pretty hard. He sets up his points.
BOB RUNYAN Bruce Lee was very famous. I watched his movies and he is amazing. He is a martial arts master, his ...
JET LI (about organizing books in his home library, and putting a book in the "Arts and Lit non-fiction sec...
NICK HORNBY When he first put his arms around me, it was tentative, like maybe he expected
I'd pull away. W...
SARAH DESSEN He started to pull away again but she called his name so he stopped.
“Yeah?”
“Before...
KRISTEN ASHLEY He really believed in the future. Two of his great loves were technology and the arts. He was willin...
LAURENCE MILLER Not only was he our first professional concert master, but in making things happen he donated a lot ...
PETER POWER He watched with his predator eyes.
The hunger in them unmasked.
He was addicted.
H...
V. THEIA THE OLD MAN IN THE CORNER

The man in the corner
Is dying with words
He's crying...
SUZY KASSEM By force of arms.
(Vi Et Armis)
CICERO LITTLE DOGS RHAPSODY IN THE NIGHT
(PERCY THREE)

He puts his cheek against mine
...
MARY OLIVER My father was a very special human being. He was brilliant in academics, sports and the arts. He wro...
AJAY MEHTA Tel est toujours le plaisir :
Il excite ceux qui en jouissent
Et comme un essaim d'abeille...
BOèCE He is life's liberating force.
He is release of limbs and communion through dance.
He is l...
EURIPIDES ESPE: So, in both conversations, Lama Sangyay steers you away from thinking directly about Epifanio ...
SALLY EMBER The only limitation is that which one sets up in one's own mind.
NAPOLEON HILL He always seemed to be an expert in anything and everything I needed to know. He was very knowledgea...
DIANE JACOBOWITZ The bookful blockhead ignorantly read,
With loads of learned lumber in his head,
With his own ...
ALEXANDER POPE When he was in his late 60s, he was still beating us young kids who thought we were hot stuff, but w...
DION SHIVELY He got a corporation mind. He doesn't believe in nature; he puts his trust and distrust in man.
NORMAN MAILER He got a corporation mind. He don't believe in nature; he puts his trust and distrust in man.
NORMAN MAILER A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achiev...
KURT LEWIN Inside, they pretended they would dream, but they did not. They sprawled on the living room sofa and...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER It is one thing to speak of embracing the new, the fresh, the strange. It is another to feel that on...
GREGORY BENFORD Fix your mind on truth, hold firm to virtue, rely on loving kindness, and find your recreation in th...
CONFUCIUS A precious mouldering pleasure 't is
To meet an antique book,
In just the dress his centur...
EMILY DICKINSON And do I ask, wherefore my heart
Falters, oppressed with unknown needs?
Why some inexpli...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE He comes up with his own drills. He sets up the shooters where he wants them, and tells them where t...
ADAM HALL When a man is just and firm in his purpose,
The citizens burning to approve a wrong
Or the fro...
HORACE Gus is the Cat at the Theatre Door.
His name, as I ought to have told you before,
Is reall...
T.S. ELIOT Can the mind see the truth of its own incapacity to know the unknown? Surely if I see very clearly t...
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI I do not aim with my hand; he who aims with his hand has forgotten the face of his father.
I ai...
STEPHEN KING It's the amount of spin and drift that he gets, plus his accuracy. That's what sets him apart,
MICHAEL ATHERTON If he shrugs his shoulders, it is because he is no fool. He knows that once men are caught up in an ...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY Through all this world strode Vishnu:
thrice his foot he planted,
and the whole world was ...
VEDA The reason for his amazing speed in martial arts is, he would practice, "Liking", "Just posted photo...
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OVID Either do not attempt at all, or go through with it.
OVID At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.
OVID Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be crue...
OVID If you want to be loved, be lovable.
OVID Take rest; a field that has rested gives a beautiful crop.
OVID Time is generally the best doctor.
OVID A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip ...
OVID An evil life is a kind of death.
OVID The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.
OVID A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.
OVID Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships, the poor man everywhere lie...
OVID Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast in the stream where you least expect there wil...
OVID To be loved, be lovable. -Ovid.
OVID Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.
OVID As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there...
OVID Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.
OVID Had I not sinned what would there be for you to pardon. My fate has given you the opportunity for m...
OVID Luck affects everything; let your hook always be cast. In the stream where you least expect it, ther...
OVID Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.
OVID Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him, Easy-going enough once you acknow...
OVID No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase wit...
OVID What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief i...
OVID Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained b...
OVID Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
OVID Nothing is swifter than our years.
OVID Time is the devourer of all things.
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
OVID All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. ...
OVID Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe.
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.
OVID The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.
OVID It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.
OVID Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our ...
OVID Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.
OVID Habits change into character.
OVID Forbear to lay the guilt of a few on the many.
OVID Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be fish.
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.
OVID Bear patiently with a rival.
OVID I am above being injured by fortune, though she steals away much, more will remain with me. The bles...
OVID Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.
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.
OVID Keep a mid course between two extremes.
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.
OVID Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.
OVID It is no less a feat to keep what you have, than to increase it. In one there is chance, the other w...
OVID A short absence is the safest.
OVID Majesty and love do not consort well together, nor do they dwell in the same place.
OVID Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.
OVID Daring is not safe against daring men.
OVID Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.
OVID Make the workmanship surpass the materials.
OVID Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned.
OVID All things human hang by a slender thread; and that which seemed to stand strong suddenly falls and ...
OVID Delay is a great procuress
OVID What is without periods of rest will not endure.
OVID What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.
OVID Had I not sinned what would there be for you to pardon. My fate has given you the opportunity for me...
OVID 'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.
OVID Skill makes love unending.
OVID Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.
OVID The mind grows sicker than the body in contemplation of it's suffering.
OVID Well has he lived who has lived well in obscurity.
OVID Envy aims very high.
OVID Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a...
OVID Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there...
OVID Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, i...
OVID The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encour...
OVID Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.
OVID Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.
OVID We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.
OVID In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are.
OVID The bold adventurer succeeds the best.
OVID Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.
OVID My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.
OVID Fortune and love favor the brave.
OVID I grabbed a pile of dust, and holding it up, foolishly asked for as many birthdays as the grains of ...
OVID I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement.
OVID Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.
OVID Art lies by its own artifice.
OVID Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.
OVID Ah me! Love can not be cured by herbs.
OVID Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying...
OVID Love is a credulous thing.
OVID Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.
OVID Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.
OVID We are slow to believe that which if believed would hurt our feelings.
OVID Nothing in the entire universe ever perishes, believe me, but things vary, and adopt a new form. The...
OVID How little you know about the age you live in if you think that honey is sweeter than cash in hand.
OVID Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these
OVID What is allowed us is disagreeable, what is denied us causes us intense desire.
OVID Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.
OVID Courage conquers all things.
OVID Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.
OVID Nothing in the entire universe ever perishes, believe me, but things vary, and adopt a new form. The...
OVID We can learn even from our enemies.
OVID Time the devourer of all things.
OVID The result justifies the deed. (Exitus acta probat)
OVID To be loved, be lovable.
OVID Nothing is stronger than habit.
OVID When I was from Cupid's passions free, my Muse was mute and wrote no elegy.
OVID So I can't live either without you or with you.
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.
OVID Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.
OVID Love will enter cloaked in friendship's name.
OVID If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.
OVID Dignity and love do not blend well, nor do they continue long together.
OVID Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, ther...
OVID By faithful study of the nobler arts, our nature's softened, and more gentle grows.
OVID All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.
OVID The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.
OVID There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
OVID Love is full of anxious fears.
OVID Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and f...
OVID Happy is he who dares courageously to defend what he loves
OVID Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts.
OVID Burdens become light when cheerfully borne
OVID Perfer et obdura; dolor hic tibi proderit olim.
OVID It is the poor man who'll ever count his flock.
OVID Beauty is a fragile gift.
OVID Love is a kind of warfare.
OVID Frankly, I don't want to see a rapid upturn. I want it to hold until some of these idiotic competito...
OVID Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven.
OVID Love fed fat soon turns to boredom
OVID Give me the waters of Lethe that numb the heart, if they exist, I will still not have the power to f...
OVID Little things please little minds.
OVID Every lover is a soldier.
OVID The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quen...
OVID We two form a multitude.
OVID Sickness seizes the body from bad ventilation. [Lat.: Aere non certo corpora languor habet.]
OVID It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe that there are
OVID I can't live either without you or with you
OVID Time on time revolving we descry, So moments flit, so moments fly
OVID Resist beginnings it is too late to employ medicine when the evil has grown strong by inveterate hab...
OVID Seeking is all very well, but holding requires greater talent: Seeking involves some luck; now the d...
OVID The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late
OVID Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and de...
OVID In our play we reveal what kind of people we are
OVID Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves.
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
OVID Gutta cavat lapidem, non vi, sed saepe cadendo. - A drop of water hollows a stone, not by force, but...
OVID Who would have known of Hector, if Troy had been happy? The road to valor is built by adversity
OVID I hate a woman who offers herself because she ought to do so, and, cold and dry, thinks of her sewin...
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
OVID How little you know about the age you live in if you think that honey is sweeter than cash in hand
OVID She half consents who silently denies
OVID At night there is no such thing as an ugly woman
OVID I got nervous at bulls and eagles,
Trying to figure what shape Zeus might take for sex
Whe...
OVID Venus of Eryx, from her mountain throne,
Saw Hades and clasped her swift-winged son, and said:<...
OVID She made up prayers and said them,
Worshipping unknown gods with unknown singing,
Her cust...
OVID And besides, we lovers fear everything
OVID Barbarus hic ego sum, quia non intelligor illis.

(In this place I am a barbarian, because...
OVID Omnia mutantur, nihil interit (everything changes, nothing perishes).
OVID Fas est ab hoste doceri.
One should learn even from one's enemies.
OVID Perfer et obdura, dolor hic tibi proderit olim. (Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be use...
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