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Either do not attempt at all or go through with it.

Either do not attempt at all or go through with it.

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Success, Commitment, Responsibility

Forbear to lay the guilt of a few on the many.

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Guilt, Lays

Time, motion and wine cause sleep.

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Wine, Sleep, Insomnia

There is a certain pleasure in weeping; grief finds in tears both a satisfaction and a cure.

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Grief, Tears, Satisfaction

When the heart is sick it cannot bear the slightest annoyance.

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Heart, Sick, Bears

A pleasing face is no small advantage.

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Beauty, Faces, Advantage

Leave war to others; 'tis Protesilaus' part of love.

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Love, War

All things can corrupt perverse minds.

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Mind, Corruption, All Things

Most safely shall you tread the middle path.

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Middle Path, Path, Moderation

What is lawful is undesirable; what is unlawful is very attractive. [Lat., Quod licet est ingratum quod non licet acrius urit.]

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Pleasure, Attractive, Unlawful

Although they posses enough, and more than enough still they yearn for more.

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Wealth, Enough, Posse

Presents, believe me, seduce both men and gods.

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Believe, Men, Believe In Me
Ovid (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)”, p.345, Delphi Classics

To have properly studied the liberal sciences gives a polish to our manners, and removes all awkwardness.

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Giving, Manners, Polish

The cause is hidden; the effect is visible to all.

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Causes, Effects, Visible

Money nowadays is money; money brings office; money gains friends; everywhere the poor man is down. [Lat., In pretio pretium nunc est; dat census honores, Census amicitias; pauper ubique jacet.]

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Money, Men, Office

The pleasure that is granted to me from a sense of duty ceases to be a pleasure at all.

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Granted, Pleasure, Duty
Ovid (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)”, p.328, Delphi Classics

Every lover is a soldier. (Love is a warfare.) [Lat., Militat omnis amans.]

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Love, Soldier, Warfare

It is no less a feat to keep what you have, than to increase it. In one there is chance, the other will be a work of art.

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Art, Chance, Increase

He whom all hate all wish to see destroyed.

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Hate, Wish, Destroyed

Tempore difficiles veniunt ad aratra juvenci; Tempore lenta pati frena docentur equi. In time the unmanageable young oxen come to the plough; in time the horses are taught to endure the restraining bit.

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Time, Horse, Oxen

The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.

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Prayer, Coward, Fortune

If you have a voice, sing; but if you have good arms, then go in for dancing.

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Dance, Voice, Dancing

A pious fraud. [Lat., Pia fraus.]

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Deceit, Fraud, Pious

He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.

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Falling In Love, Fall, Indolence

The act is judged of by the event.

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Events, Judged

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