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Ovid
43 BC - 17 AD
Category: Poet

The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool.

   

Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.

   

He who says o'er much I love not is in love.

   

Time is generally the best doctor.

   

Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.

   

Time, motion and wine cause sleep.

   

The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.

   

Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.

   

An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

   

A man is sorry to be honest for nothing.

   

What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless.

   

Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.

   

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

   

Tears at times have the weight of speech.

   

The burden which is well borne becomes light.

   

There is a god within us.

   

Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

   

Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts.

    Topics: Anger

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

   

Every lover is a soldier.

   

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