Ovid Quotes
Love is full of anxious fears. Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish. Majesty and love do not consort well together, nor do they dwell in the same place. Make the workmanship surpass the materials. Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them. Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it. Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward. Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear. Most safely shall you tread the middle path. My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope. Neglect of appearance becomes men. Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again. No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it. Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel. Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit. Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships; the poor man everywhere lies low. Often they benefit who suffer wrong. People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude. Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength. Take rest; a field that has rested gives a beautiful crop.
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