FastSaying
Some report elsewhere whatever is told them; the measure of fiction always increases, and each fresh narrator adds something to what he has heard. [Lat., Hi narrata ferunt alio; mensuraque ficti Crescit et auditus aliquid novus adjicit auctor.]
Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
Rumor
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Murder
That load becomes light which is cheerfully borne. [Lat., Leve fit quod bene fertur onus.]
— Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
Cheerfulness
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)
Wounds
A wound will perhaps become tolerable with length of time; but wounds which are raw shudder at the touch of the hands. [Lat., Tempore ducetur longo fortasse cicatrix; Horrent admotas vulnera cruda manus.]
— Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
Wounds
The least strength suffices to break what is bruised. [Lat., Minimae vires frangere quassa valent.]
— Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
Strength
