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• Alluring pleasure is said to have softened the savage dispositions (of early mankind).
  [Lat., Blanda truces animos fertur mollisse voluptas.]

  Ovid

  Savages, Pleasure, Said

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• Tis you, alone, can save, or give my doom.

  Ovid

  Giving, Doom

  Ovid (1872). “Ovid: The Metamorphoses. Book I-IX”, p.287

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• According to the state of a man's conscience, so do hope and fear on account of his deeds arise in his mind.

  Ovid

  Men, Mind, Deeds

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• Believe me, the gods spare the afflicted, and do not always oppress those who are unfortunate.

  Ovid

  Believe, Affliction, Unfortunate

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• In sweet water there is a pleasure ungrudged by anyone.

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  Sweet, Water, Pleasure

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• Anger assists hands however weak.

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  Anger, Hands, Weak

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• In an easy cause anyone can be eloquent; the slightest strength is enough to break what is already shattered.

  Ovid

  Causes, Easy, Enough

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• People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.

  Ovid

  Confidence, People, Claims

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• Who gives to Aristaeus honey;
  Or wine to Bacchus, or Triptolemus
  Earth's fruits, or apples to Alcinous?

  Ovid

  Wine, Apples, Giving

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• Let others seek safety. Nothing is safer than misfortune,
  Where there's no fear of greater ill to come.

  Ovid

  Safety, No Fear, Ill

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• Suppressed pain chokes us; in our breasts
  It surges, adding ever to its strength.

  Ovid

  Pain, Choke, Breasts

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• Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.
  [Lat., Factis ignoscite nostris
  Si scelus ingenio scitis abesse meo.]

  Ovid

  Deeds, Crime, Absent

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• Envy, slothful vice,
  Never makes its way in lofty characters,
  But, like the skulking viper, creeps and crawls
  Close to the ground.

  Ovid

  Character, Envy, Vices

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• To be thoroughly imbued, with the liberal arts refines the manners, and makes men to be mild and gentle in their conduct.

  Ovid

  Education, Art, Men

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• Writings survive the years; it is by writings that you know Agamemnon, and those who fought for or against him.
  [Lat., Scripta ferunt annos; scriptis Agamemnona nosti,
  Et quisquis contra vel simul arma tulit.]

  Ovid

  Writing, Years, Agamemnon

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