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God himself favors the brave.

God himself favors the brave.

Ovid
Bravery, Brave, Favors

Envy, the meanest of vices, creeps on the ground like a serpent.

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Envy, Vices, Creeps

It is the act of a coward to wish for death.

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Military, Wish, Coward

Destroy our leisure and you break love's bow.

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Love, Leisure, Bows

How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

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Children, Men, Promise

I see and praise what is better, but follow what is worse.

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Praise

Love is a naked child: do you think he has pockets for money?

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Love, Children, Thinking
Ovid (1957). “The Loves: The Art of Beauty, The Remedies for Love, and The Art of Love”, p.31, Indiana University Press

Thanks are justly due for things got without purchase. [Lat., Gratia pro rebus merito debetur inemtis.]

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Gratitude, Thanks, Dues

Hate I shall, if I can; if I can't, I shall love though not willing.

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Hate, Willing, Ifs

He who holds the hook is aware in what waters many fish are swimming.

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Swimming, Lakes, Sea
Ovid, John Henry Mozley (1979). “Ovid”, Loeb Classical Library

Resist beginnings: it is too late to employ medicine when the evil has grown strong by inveterate habit.

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Strong, Medicine, Evil

That pleasure which can be safely indulged in is the least inviting.

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Pleasure, Inviting

Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.

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Love, Friendship, Dignity

Excessive love in loathing ever ends.

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Love, Loathing, Ends

It's useful that there should be Gods, so let's believe there are.

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Crazy, Believe, Mad

Envy feeds on the living, after death it rests, then the honor of a man protects him.

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Death, Men, Envy

Not for any one man's delight has Nature made the sun, the wind, the waters; all are free.

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Nature, Men, Wind

Put faith in one who's had experience.

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Experience

Add little to little and there will be a big pile.

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Tasks, Add, Littles

It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are.

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Believe, Atheism, Convenient
Ars Amatoria bk. 1, l. 637 See Voltaire 18

If you give up your quiet life, the bow of Cupid will lose its power.

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Life, Giving Up, Bows

Concealed sorrow bursts the heart, and rages within us as an internal fire.

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Heart, Fire, Sorrow

If you want to be loved, be loveable.

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Want, Ifs

Where belief is painful we are slow to believe.

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Pain, Believe, Belief

Ah me! how easy it is (how much all have experienced it) to indulge in brave words in another person's trouble. [Lat., Hei mihi, quam facile est (quamvis hic contigit omnes), Alterius lucta fortia verba loqui!]

Ovid
Indulge In, Brave, Trouble

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