Ovid Quotes, Safety Quotes, No Fear Quotes

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

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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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Tis on the living Envy feeds. She silent grows When, after death, man's honor is his guard. So I, when on the pyre consumed I lie, Shall live, for all that's noblest will survive.

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Every delay that postpones our joys, is long. [Lat., Longa mora est nobis omnis, quae gaudia differt.]

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Fortune resists half-hearted prayers.

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Either do not attempt at all or go through with it.

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What is more useful than fire? Yet if any one prepares to burn a house, it is with fire that he arms his daring hands.

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Tis base to plead the unhappy prisoner's cause, With eloquence that's bought.

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Wherever I look there is nothing but the image of death.

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Nothing in the entire universe ever perishes, believe me, but things vary, and adopt a new form. The phrase being born is used for beginning to be something different from what one was before, while dying means ceasing to be the same. Though this thing may pass into that, and that into this, yet the sums of things remains unchanged.

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When the lightning strikes but one, not one only does it terrify.

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As many as the shells that are on the shore, so many are the pains of love; the darts that wound are steeped in much poison.

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A burthen cheerfully borne becomes light

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Good-bye to the lies of the poets. [Lat., Valeant mendacia vatum.]

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To dismiss a guest is a more ungracious act than not to admit him at all.

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People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.

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Use the occasion, for it passes swiftly.

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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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Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

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Pursuits become habits. [Lat., Abeunt studia in mores.]

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