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He, who is not prepared today, will be less so tomorrow.

He, who is not prepared today, will be less so tomorrow.

Ovid
Military, Today, Tomorrow

A red rose peeping through a white? Or else a cherry (double graced) Within a lily? Centre placed? Or ever marked the pretty beam, A strawberry shows, half drowned in cream? Or seen rich rubies blushing through A pure smooth pearl, and orient too? So like to this, nay all the rest, Is each neat niplet of her breast.

Ovid
White, Rose, Erotic

When I was from Cupid's passions free, my Muse was mute and wrote no elegy.

Ovid
Passion, Muse, Cupid

Tempus fugit (time flies).

Ovid
Time, Time Flies

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

Ovid
Leadership, Running, Encouragement

Love is an affair of credulity.

Ovid
Love, Love Is, Affair

The result justifies the deed.

Ovid
Deeds, Results, Justify

Time is a stream which glides smoothly on and is past before we know.

Ovid
Past, Streams, Knows

Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.

Ovid
Art, Character, Faithful
Ovid (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)”, p.1441, Delphi Classics

It is less to suffer punishment than to deserve it. [Lat., Estque pati poenas quam meruisse minus.]

Ovid
Punishment, Suffering, Minus

That which never has been, never is, and never will be.

Ovid
Has Beens

Heaven rewards the pious; those who cherish the gods Themselves are cherished.

Ovid
Heaven, Rewards, Cherish

I could not possibly count the gold-digging ruses of women, Not if I had ten mouths, not if I had ten tongues.

Ovid
Greed, Gold, Digging

Friendship is but a name; fidelity but an empty name.

Ovid
Names, Empty, Losing Friendship

We hate the hawk because he ever lives in battle.

Ovid
Hate, Battle, Hawks

A short absence is the safest.

Ovid
Safety, Absence

This letter gives me a tongue; and were I not allowed to write, I should be dumb. [Lat., Praebet mihi littera linguam: Et, si non liceat scribere, mutus ero.]

Ovid
Writing, Giving, Dumb

Jupiter has no leisure to attend to little things.

Ovid
Jupiter, Littles, Leisure

Pleasure is sweetest when 'tis paid for by another's pain.

Ovid
Pain, Sadism, Pleasure
Ovid (1932). “The Love Books of Ovid”, p.135, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

There is no small pleasure in pure water.

Ovid
Water, Small Pleasures, Pure

There is a deity within us who breathes that divine fire by which we are animated.

Ovid
Motivational, Spiritual, Fire

It is ill to marry in the month of May.

Ovid
Marriage, May, Months

Isn't the best defense always a good attack?

Ovid
Wisdom, Peace, War
Ovid (1957). “The Loves: The Art of Beauty, The Remedies for Love, and The Art of Love”, p.28, Indiana University Press

Temporis ars medicina fere est. Time is generally the best medicine.

Ovid
Time, Medicine

Pursuits become habits.

Ovid
Habit, Pursuit

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