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• Grant me profits only, grant me the joy of profit made,
  and see to it that I enjoy cheating the buyer!

  Ovid

  Cheating, Joy, Made

  Ovid (1929). “Fastorum libri sex: the Fasti of Ovid”

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• Giving calls for genius.

  Ovid

  Giving, Genius

  Ovid, Grant Showerman (1977). “Heroides ; Amores”, Heinemann Young Books

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• Though the strength is lacking, yet the willingness is commendable.

  Ovid

  Lacking, Willingness, Commendable

  'Epistulae Ex Ponto' bk. 3, no. 4, l. 79

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• See that you promise: what harm is there in promise? In
  promises anyone can be rich.

  Ovid

  Promise, Rich, Harm

  Ovid, John Henry Mozley (1979). “Ovid”, Loeb Classical Library

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• Face troubles from their birth, for 'tis too late to cure
  When long delay has given the evil strength.
  Haste then; postpone not to the coming hour: tomorrow
  He'll be less ready who's not ready now.

  Ovid

  Long, Evil, Haste

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• Venus is kind to creatures as young as we;We know not what we do, and while we're youngWe have the right to live and love like gods.

  Ovid

  And Love, Venus, Kind

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• The art of medicine in the season lies:
  Wine given in season oft will benefit,
  Which out of season injures.

  Ovid

  Art, Lying, Healing

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• By constant dripping, water hollows stone,
  A signet-ring from use alone grows thin,
  And the curved plowshare by soft earth is worn.

  Ovid

  Practice, Water, Use

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• For in this strange anatomy we wear, the head has greater powers than the hand; the spirit, heart, and mind are over all.

  Ovid

  Heart, Hands, Mind

  Ovid (1960). “The Metamorphoses”, Signet

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• It is lawful to be taught by an enemy. Fas est ab hoste doceri.

  Ovid

  Teaching, Enemy, Taught

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• We praise times past, while we times present use;
  Yet due the worship which to each we give.

  Ovid

  Past, Giving, Use

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• Tis on the living Envy feeds. She silent grows
  When, after death, man's honor is his guard.
  So I, when on the pyre consumed I lie,
  Shall live, for all that's noblest will survive.

  Ovid

  Death, Lying, Men

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• What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

  Ovid

  Intuition, Reason, Instinct

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• Time was when genius was more precious than gold, but
  now to have nothing is monstrous barbarism.

  Ovid

  Gold, Genius, Wealth

  Ovid (1986). “Heroides ; and, Amores”

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• You put aside the work that's done, and seek some work to do.

  Ovid

  Work, Done

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• Ovid lies here, the poet, skilled in love's gentle sport;
  By his own talents he worked his undoing.
  Oh, you who pass by, if ever you have loved,
  Think it not a burden to wish him calm repose.

  Ovid

  Love, Sports, Lying

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• He who sins easily, sins less. The very power
  Renders less vigorous the roots of evil.

  Ovid

  Roots, Evil, Sin

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• Love is too prone to trust. Would I could think
  My charges false and all too rashly made.

  Ovid

  Love, Trust, Thinking

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• There is no brotherhood between love and dignity,
  Nor can they share the same abode.

  Ovid

  Love, Brotherhood, Dignity

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• The applause and the favour of our fellow-men
  Fan even a spark of genius to a flame.

  Ovid

  Appreciation, Men, Flames

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• Constant Penelope sends to thee, careless Ulysses.
  Write not again, but come, sweet mate

  Ovid

  Sweet, Writing, Lovers

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• If the subject's easy we may all be wise;
  What stands unfirm, the smallest force overthrows.

  Ovid

  Wise, Wisdom, May

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• With wavering steps does fickle fortune stray,
  Nowhere she finds a firm and fixed abode;
  But now all smiles, and now again all frowns,
  She's constant only in inconstancy.

  Ovid

  Doe, Fickle, Wavering

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• Sleep, nature's rest, divine tranquility, That brings peace to the mind.

  Ovid

  Sleep, Mind, Tranquility

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• Some people think that because they do the opposite of what they are asked to do, they have initiative

  Ovid

  Thinking, Opposites, People

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