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• The gods behold all righteous actions.

  Ovid

  Action, Righteous

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• While strength and years permit, endure labor; soon bent old age will come with silent foot.
  [Lat., Dum vires annique sinunt, tolerate labores.
  Jam veniet tacito curva senecta pede.]

  Ovid

  Feet, Years, Age

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• The vulgar herd estimate friendship by its advantages.
  [Lat., Vulgus amicitias utilitate probat.]

  Ovid

  Friendship, Herds, Advantage

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• We covet what is guarded; the very care invokes the thief. Few love what they may have.

  Ovid

  Thieves, Care, May

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• Even pleasure cloys without variety.

  Ovid

  Pleasure, Variety

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• It is expedient that there should be gods, and, since it is expedient, let us believe that gods exist.

  Ovid

  Art, Philosophy, Believe

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• The need has gone; the memorial thereof remains.

  Ovid

  Memorial, Needs, Gone

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• Novelty in all things is charming.

  Ovid

  Novelty, Charming, All Things

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• Thou fool, what is sleep but the image of death? Fate will give an eternal rest.
  [Lat., Stulte, quid est somnus, gelidae nisi mortis imago?
  Longa quiescendi tempora fata dabunt.]

  Ovid

  Death, Sleep, Fate

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• When all the other animals, downcast looked upon the earth, he [Prometheus] gave a face raised on high to man, and commanded him to see the sky and raise his high eyes to the stars.

  Ovid

  Stars, Eye, Animal

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• Man should ever look to his last day, and no one should be called happy before his funeral.
  [Lat., Ultima semper
  Expectanda dies homini est, dicique beatus
  Ante obitum nemo et suprema funera debet.]

  Ovid

  Death, Men, Funeral

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• It is art to conceal art. -Ars est celare artem

  Ovid

  Art

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• In your judgment virtue requires no reward, and is to be sought for itself, unaccompanied by external benefits.
  [Lat., Judice te mercede caret, per seque petenda est
  Externis virtus incomitata bonis.]

  Ovid

  Benefits, Rewards, Judgment

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• The rest of the crowd were friends of my fortune, not of me.
  [Lat., Caetera fortunae, non mea, turba fuit.]

  Ovid

  Friends, Crowds, Fortune

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• What is allowed us is disagreeable, what is denied us causes us intense desire.

  Ovid

  Desire, Causes, Intense

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• Nations and empires flourish and decay, By turns command, and in their turns obey.

  Ovid

  Decay, Empires, Command

  Ovid, Banier (M. l'abbé, Antoine), Bernard Picart (1717). “Ovid's Metamorphoses: In Latin and English, Translated by the Most Eminent Hands. With Historical Explications of the Fables, Written in French by the Abbot Banier, ... Translated Into English. Adorned with Sculptures by B. Picart, and Other Able Masters”, p.529

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• In prosperity you may count on many friends; if the sky becomes overcast you will be alone.

  Ovid

  Sky, May, Prosperity

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• There is a good deal in a man's mode of eating.

  Ovid

  Men, Eating, Deals

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• There is a certain kind of pleasure in weeping.

  Ovid

  Kind, Pleasure, Certain

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• I would that you were either less beautiful, or less corrupt. Such perfect beauty does not suit such imperfect morals.
  [Lat., Aut formosa fores minus, aut minus improba vellem.
  Non facit ad mores tam bona forma malos.]

  Ovid

  Beauty, Beautiful, Perfect

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• She who resists as though she would not win,
  By her own treason falls an easy prey.

  Ovid

  Betrayal, Fall, Winning

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• Rare is the virtue that's not ruled by Fortune,
  That stands unshaken even when Fortune flees.

  Ovid

  Virtue, Fortune

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• Everyone is desirous of his own pursuits, and loves
  To spend his time in his accustomed art.

  Ovid

  Art, And Love, Habit

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• With patience bear what pains you have deserved,
  Grieve, if you will, over what's unmerited.

  Ovid

  Pain, Grieving, Punishment

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• When worse may yet befall, there's room for prayer,
  But when our fortune's at its lowest ebb,
  We trample fear beneath our feet, and live
  Without a fear of evil yet to come.

  Ovid

  Prayer, Future, Feet

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