Roman - Poet | 43 BC - 17 AD
Alas! how difficult it is not to betray one's guilt by one's looks.
Ovid
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Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.
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Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.
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An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.
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The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool.
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Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.
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First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, 'I believe,' three times.
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Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.
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You can learn from anyone even your enemy.
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Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.
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You will go most safely in the middle.
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Time, the devourer of all things.
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