Ovid Quotes, Simplicity Quotes, Swim Quotes

He is a foolish swimmer who swims against the stream, when he might take the current sideways.

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We hate the hawk because he ever lives in battle.

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All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

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As God is propitiated by the blood of a hundred bulls, so also is he by the smallest offering of incense. [Lat., Sed tamen ut fuso taurorum sanguine centum, Sic capitur minimo thuris honore deux.]

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Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength.

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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.

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There is no such thing as pure, unalloyed pleasure; some bitter ever mingles with the sweet.

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Fortune and love favour the brave. [Lat., Audentem Forsque Venusque juvant.]

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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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I am an exile; but it is the fault that pains; The punishment is nought; that it is deserved Is all the pain.

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Every man should stay within his own fortune. [Lat., Intera fortunam quisque debet manere suam.]

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Today is truly the Golden Age: gold buys hornor, gold procures love

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

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Envy depreciates the genius of the great Homer.

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

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Nothing is more useful to man that those arts which have no utility.

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A pleasing face is no small advantage.

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It is prudence that first forsakes the wretched.

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Love is no assignment for cowards.

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We can learn even from our enemies.

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