Ovid Quotes, Stars Quotes, Men Quotes

God gave man an upright countenance to survey the heavens, and to look upward to the stars.

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Keep a mid course between two extremes.

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Keep thy hook always baited, for a fish lurks even in the most unlikely swim.

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The mind, conscious of rectitude, laughed to scorn the falsehood of report.

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Indulgent gods, grant me to sin once with impunity. That is sufficient. Let a second offence bear its punishment.

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

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Sleep, rest of things, O pleasing Deity, Peace of the soul, which cares dost crucify, Weary bodies refresh and mollify.

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Fair Flora! Now attend thy sportful feast, Of which some days I with design have past; A part in April and a part in May Thou claim'st, and both command my tuneful lay; And as the confines of two months are thine To sing of both the double task be mine.

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Even pleasure cloys without variety.

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How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

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Every lover is a soldier.

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We are charmed by neatness: Let not your hair be out of order. [Lat., Munditiis capimur: non sine lege capilli.]

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The gods have their own rules.

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Nothing retains its form; new shapes from old. Nature, the great inventor, ceaselessly contrives. In all creation, be assured, there is no death - no death, but only change and innovation; what we men call birth is but a different new beginning; death is but to cease to be the same. Perhaps this may have moved to that, and that to this, yet still the sum of things remains the same.

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Venus favors the bold.

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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.

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Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts. [Lat., Candida pax homines, trux decet ira feras.]

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

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That load becomes light which is cheerfully borne.

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Gutta cavat lapidem, non vi sed saepe cadendo. (The drop excavates the stone, not with force but by falling often.)

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