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• Add little to little and there will be a big pile.

  Ovid

  Tasks, Add, Littles

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• It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are.

  Ovid

  Believe, Atheism, Convenient

  Ars Amatoria bk. 1, l. 637 See Voltaire 18

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• If you want to be loved, be loveable.

  Ovid

  Want, Ifs

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• If you give up your quiet life, the bow of Cupid will lose its power.

  Ovid

  Life, Giving Up, Bows

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• Concealed sorrow bursts the heart, and rages within us as an internal fire.

  Ovid

  Heart, Fire, Sorrow

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• Where belief is painful we are slow to believe.

  Ovid

  Pain, Believe, Belief

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• Either do not attempt at all or go through with it.

  Ovid

  Success, Commitment, Responsibility

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• Ah me! how easy it is (how much all have experienced it) to indulge in brave words in another person's trouble.
  [Lat., Hei mihi, quam facile est (quamvis hic contigit omnes),
  Alterius lucta fortia verba loqui!]

  Ovid

  Indulge In, Brave, Trouble

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• Forbear to lay the guilt of a few on the many.

  Ovid

  Guilt, Lays

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• Time, motion and wine cause sleep.

  Ovid

  Wine, Sleep, Insomnia

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• There is a certain pleasure in weeping; grief finds in tears both a satisfaction and a cure.

  Ovid

  Grief, Tears, Satisfaction

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• When the heart is sick it cannot bear the slightest annoyance.

  Ovid

  Heart, Sick, Bears

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• Leave war to others; 'tis Protesilaus' part of love.

  Ovid

  Love, War

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• All things can corrupt perverse minds.

  Ovid

  Mind, Corruption, All Things

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• Most safely shall you tread the middle path.

  Ovid

  Middle Path, Path, Moderation

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• Calumny ever pursues the great, even as the winds hurl themselves on high places.

  Ovid

  Wind, Calumny, Slander

  Ovid (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)”, p.358, Delphi Classics

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• Tis base to plead the unhappy prisoner's cause,
  With eloquence that's bought.

  Ovid

  Unhappy, Causes, Prisoner

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• A pleasing face is no small advantage.

  Ovid

  Beauty, Faces, Advantage

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• Presents, believe me, seduce both men and gods.

  Ovid

  Believe, Men, Believe In Me

  Ovid (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)”, p.345, Delphi Classics

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• The pleasure that is granted to me from a sense of duty ceases to be a pleasure at all.

  Ovid

  Granted, Pleasure, Duty

  Ovid (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)”, p.328, Delphi Classics

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• Money nowadays is money; money brings office; money gains friends; everywhere the poor man is down.
  [Lat., In pretio pretium nunc est; dat census honores,
  Census amicitias; pauper ubique jacet.]

  Ovid

  Money, Men, Office

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• Every lover is a soldier. (Love is a warfare.)
  [Lat., Militat omnis amans.]

  Ovid

  Love, Soldier, Warfare

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• Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.

  Ovid

  Beauty, Reality, Vision

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• It is no less a feat to keep what you have, than to increase it. In one there is chance, the other will be a work of art.

  Ovid

  Art, Chance, Increase

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• Beneath the sun's rays our shadow is our comrade;
  When clouds obscure the sun our shadow flees.
  So Fortune's smiles the fickle crowd pursues,
  But swift is gone whenever she veils her face.

  Ovid

  Clouds, Shadow, Rays

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