Oh, the blind counsels of the guilty! Oh, how cowardly is wickedness always! [Lat., O caeca nocentum consilia! O semper timidum scelus!]


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It is noble to grant life to the vanquished. [Lat., Pulchrum est vitam donare minori.]
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Anger manages everything badly.
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The whole world is a man's birthplace.
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Fear created the first gods in the world.
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He plants trees to benefit another generation.
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In doubt, fear is the worst of prophets.
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Fear created the first gods in the world
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Wisdom oft lurks beneath a tattered coat.
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The whole world is a man's birthplace.
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Grant us a brief delay; impulse in everything is but a worthless servant.
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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.
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There is no legal obligation to perform impossibilities.
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The bow too tensely strung is easily broken.
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Confidence, like the soul, never returns, whence it has departed.
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The glow of inspiration warms us; it is a holy rapture.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency
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Forbidden things have a secret charm
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Rumor is not always wrong
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Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
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When a rose dies, a thorn is left behind.
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Fortune helps the brave.
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fea...
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The unknown always seems sublime
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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
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Posterity gives every man his true value.
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The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms, armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor ca...
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One who is allowed to sin, sins less
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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
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Love of fame is the last thing even the wise give up
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Love of fame is the last thing even learned men can bear to be parted from.
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When the state is most corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
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Posterity will pay everyone their due.
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.
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It is human nature to hate those whom you have injured
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A bad peace is even worse than war.
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The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.
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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
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Forethought and prudence are the proper qualities of a leader.
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We are corrupted by prosperity
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Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly mis...
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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, lead to ruin
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When monarchs through their bloodthirsty commanders lay waste a country, they dignify their atrocity...
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There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.
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Bitter the jest when satire comes too near truth and leaves a sharp sting behind it
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Whatever is unknown is magnified
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You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.
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Reason and calm judgment: the qualities especially belonging to a leader.
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The more corrupt the state, the more laws.
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The hatred of those who are near to us is the most violent
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So, as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants
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Greater things are believed of those who are absent
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The hatred of relatives is the most violent
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He had talents equal to business, and aspired no higher
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Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil ...
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Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
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Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions
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Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be tho...
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A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing ...
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All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first,...
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The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
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The illicit has an added charm
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There will be vice as long as there are men
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Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves. [Lat., Cern...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)
We find that the Romans owed the conquest of the world to no other cause than continual military tra...
PUBLIUS FLAVIUS VEGETIUS RENATUS
Though the power be wanting, yet the wish is praiseworthy. [Lat., Ut desint vires tamen est laudan...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)
Embarrassment of riches. [Fr., Embarras des richesse.]
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)
Riches, the incentives to evil, are dug out of the earth. [Lat., Effodiuntur opes irritamenta malo...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)
The ungovernable passion for wealth. [Lat., Opum furiata cupido.]
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)
To be suspicious is not a fault. To be suspicious all the time without coming to a conclusion is t...
TERENCE (PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER)
Give place to your betters. [Lat., De locum melioribus.]
TERENCE (PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER)
Attired to please herself: no gems of any kind She wore, nor aught of borrowed gloss in Nature's ...
TERENCE (PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER)
Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.
TERENCE (PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER)
We should look at the lives of all as at a mirror, and take from others an example for ourselves. ...
TERENCE (PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER)
How many unjust and wicked things are done from mere habit. [Lat., Quam multa injusta ac prava fiu...
TERENCE (PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER)
I perceive that the things that we do are silly; but what can one do? According to men's habits an...
TERENCE (PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER)
Charity begins at home. [Lat., Proximus sum egomet mihi.]
TERENCE (PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER)
There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.
TERENCE (PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER)
May the countryside and the gliding valley streams content me. Lost to fame, let me love river and w...
VIRGIL PUBLIUS VERGILIUS MARO
To wish for death is a coward's part. [Lat., Timidi est optare necem.]
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)
We covet what is guarded; the very care invokes the thief. Few love what they may have. [Lat., Q...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)
You are harping on the same string. [Lat., Cantilenam candem canis.]
TERENCE (PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER)
We are always striving for things forbidden, and coveting those denied us. [Lat., Nitimur in veti...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)
The cause is hidden, but the result is known. [Lat., Causa latet: vis est notissima.]
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)
Thou beginnest better than thou endest. The last is inferior to the first. [Lat., Coepisti mel...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)
Nor is there any law more just, than that he who has plotted death shall perish by his own plot. ...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)
That load becomes light which is cheerfully borne. [Lat., Leve fit quod bene fertur onus.]
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)
Fare ye well, and give us your applause. [Lat., Vos valete et plaudite.]
TERENCE (PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER)
The wounded gladiator forswears all fighting, but soon forgetting his former wound resumes his arms...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)
A wound will perhaps become tolerable with length of time; but wounds which are raw shudder at the ...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)
There is no small pleasure in sweet water. [Lat., Est in aqua dulci non invidiosa voluptas.]
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)
Stones are hollowed out by the constant dropping of water.
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)
All human things hang on a slender thread, the strongest fall with a sudden crash. [Lat., Omnia s...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)
When the mind is in a state of uncertainty the smallest impulse directs it to either side. [Lat.,...
TERENCE (PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER)
The least strength suffices to break what is bruised. [Lat., Minimae vires frangere quassa valent....
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)
What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief ...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)
Thanks are justly due for things got without purchase. [Lat., Gratia pro rebus merito debetur inem...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)
God himself favors the brave. [Lat., Audentes deus ipse juvat.]
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)
Some report elsewhere whatever is told them; the measure of fiction always increases, and each fres...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)
Alas! How difficult it is to prevent the countenance from betraying guilt! [Heu! quam difficile...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)
Then the Omnipotent Father with his thunder made Olympus tremble, and from Ossa hurled Pelion.
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)
As the hawk is wont to pursue the trembling doves. [Lat., Ut solet accipiter trepidas agitare colu...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)
A field becomes exhausted by constant tillage. [Lat., Continua messe senescit ager.]
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)
Have patience and endure; this unhappiness will one day be beneficial. [Lat., Perfer et obdura; d...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)
Believe me, the gods spare the afflicted, and do not always oppress those who are unfortunate. [L...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)
The mind conscious of innocence despises false reports: but we are a set always ready to believe a...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)
You do not know it but you are the talk of all the town. [Lat., Fabula (nec sentis) tota jactaris ...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)
Resist beginnings: it is too late to employ medicine when the evil has grown strong by inveterate ...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)
Truly now is the golden age; the highest honour comes by means of gold; by gold love is procured. ...
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.]
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)
Our native land charms us with inexpressible sweetness, and never never allows us to forget that we...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)
The judge's duty is to inquire about the time, as well as the facts. [Lat., Judicis officium est ...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)
Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination. [Lat., Factis igno...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)
The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late. [Lat., Prisca j...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)
No free man will ask as favor, what he can not claim as reward. [Lat., Neutiquam officium liberi e...
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.]
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)
I go back to those who say: what if the heavens fall? [Lat., Redeo ad illes qui aiunt: quid si c...
TERENCE (PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER)
There is nothing which cannot be perverted by being told badly.
TERENCE (PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER)
The raven once in snowy plumes was drest, White as the whitest dove's unsullied breast, Fair a...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)
From others' slips some profit from one's self to gain. [Lat., Hoc scitum'st periculum ex aliis fa...
TERENCE (PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER)
The need has gone; the memorial thereof remains. [Lat., Factum abiit; monumenta manent.]
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)
He who has lived obscurely and quietly has lived well. [Lat., Bene qui latuit, bene vixit.]
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)
The nets not stretched to catch the hawk, Or kite, who do us wrong; but laid for those Who do ...
TERENCE (PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER)
We have ploughed the vast ocean in a fragile bark. [Lat., Nos fragili vastum ligno sulcavimus aequ...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)
He who holds the hook is aware in what waters many fish are swimming. [Lat., Qui sustinet hamos, ...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)
All persons as they become less prosperous, are the more suspicious. They take everything as an af...
TERENCE (PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER)
Do not waste bricks. (Waste your labor.) [Lat., Ne laterum laves.]
TERENCE (PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER)
As you can not do what you wish, you should wish what you can do. [Lat., Quoniam id fieri quod vis...
TERENCE (PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER)
Those graceful groves that shade the plain, Where Tiber rolls majestic to the main, And flatte...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)
Few men are born brave. Many become so through training and force of discipline.
PUBLIUS FLAVIUS VEGETIUS RENATUS
Let those love now, who never loved before, Let those who always loved, now love the more.
OVID PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO
Rome was not built in a day.
OVID PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO
Alas! How difficult it is to prevent the countenance from betraying guilt! [Heu! quam difficile...
OVID PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO
Often a silent face has voice and words. [Lat., Saepe tacens vocem verbaque vultus habet.]
OVID PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO
That fair face will as years roll on lose its beauty, and old age will bring its wrinkles to the br...
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
A handful of men, inured to war, proceed to certain victory, while on the contrary, numerous armies ...
PUBLIUS FLAVIUS VEGETIUS RENATUS
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.
OVID PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO
Love and dignity do not dwell together.
OVID PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO
Let the poor man mind his tongue.
OVID PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO