Roman - Poet | 43 BC - 17 AD
What makes men indifferent to their wives is that they can see them when they please.
Ovid
MenSeePleaseIndifferentMakes
Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.
HealthMedicalMedicineSometimes
How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.
ManChildLittlePromiseHow
People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.
ConfidencePeopleSlowClaim
Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.
HabitPowerfulNothingMoreCustom
An evil life is a kind of death.
LifeDeathEvilLife Is AKind
The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.
WinHorseRunWillRaceTry
My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.
HopeAlwaysHopesRealized
Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.
DarknessWomanNightFairFaultHid
A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.
SlowRewardQuickPrinceShould
The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late.
GoodPeopleThinkLateBornLucky
What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.
NowReasonInstinctImpulse
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