Ovid Quotes, Clouds Quotes, Shadow Quotes

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.

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To have properly studied the liberal sciences gives a polish to our manners, and removes all awkwardness.

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

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The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

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The mind grows sicker than the body in contemplation of it's suffering.

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What is harder than rock, or softer than water? Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere.

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The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late.

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It is the mind that makes the man, and our vigour is in our immortal soul.

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Consider the misfortunes of others, and you will be the better able to bear your own.

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Envy feeds on the living. It ceases when they are dead.

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This letter gives me a tongue; and were I not allowed to write, I should be dumb. [Lat., Praebet mihi littera linguam: Et, si non liceat scribere, mutus ero.]

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Sleep, thou repose of all things; sleep, thou gentlest of the deities; thou peace of the mind, from which care flies; who doest soothe the hearts of men wearied with the toils of the day, and refittest them for labor.

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The wounded gladiator forswears all fighting, but soon forgetting his former wound resumes his arms.

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Love is born of idleness and, once born, by idleness is fostered.

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Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

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Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery.

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From high Meonia's rocky shores I came, Of poor decsent, Acoetes is my name, My sire was measly born: no oxen ploughed, His fruitful fields, nor in his pastures lowed, His whole estate within the waters lay' With lines and hooks he caught the finny prey; His art was all his livelehood, which he Thus with his dying lips bequeathed to me: In streams, my boy, and rivers take thy chance; There swims', said he, Thy whole inheritance.

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To be silent is but a small virtue; but it is a serious fault to reveal secrets.

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The purpose of law is to prevent the strong always having their way.

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The man who falls in love chill find plenty of occupation.

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