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Neglect of appearance becomes men.

Neglect of appearance becomes men.

Ovid
Men, Appearance, Neglect

Majesty and love do not well agree, nor do they live together.

Ovid
Life, Together, And Love

Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.

Ovid
Women, Long, Elude
Ovid (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)”, p.311, Delphi Classics

The gods have their own laws. [Lat., Sunt superis sua jura.]

Ovid
Law

It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Ovid
Honesty, Annoyed, Purpose

He who says o'er much I love not is in love.

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

The battle is over when the foe has fallen.

Ovid
Battle, Fallen, Foe

Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid
Men, Risk, Safe

It is not easy to bear prosperity unruffled.

Ovid
Bears, Prosperity, Easy

This victory will be your I ruin.

Ovid
Victory, Ruins
Ovid (2013). “Fasti”, p.137, OUP Oxford

In an easy matter. Anybody can be eloquent.

Ovid
Matter, Easy, Conversation

We suffer by our proximity. [Who get a blow intended for another.]

Ovid
Blow, Suffering, Proximity

Honesty, by evil fortune tried, Finds in adversity the seed of praise.

Ovid
Honesty, Adversity, Evil

Love that is fed by jealousy dies hard.

Ovid
Life, Jealousy, Envy
Ovid (1932). “The Love Books of Ovid”, p.216, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.

Ovid
Blame, Prison, Multitudes

No thanks attach to a kindness long deferred.

Ovid
Kindness, Long, Thanks

Fools laugh at the Latin language. -Rident stolidi verba Latina

Ovid
Laughter, Latin, Laughing

Man looks aloft, and with erected eyes Beholds his hereditary skies.

Ovid
Eye, Men, Sky
Ovid, “Metamorphoses: Book The First”

The love of fame puts spurs to the mind

Ovid
Mind, Spurs, Fame

Tempus edax rerum. Time the devourer of everything.

Ovid
Time
Metamorphoses bk. 15, l. 234

A lover fears all that he believes.

Ovid
Love, Believe, Heart

What is more useful than fire? Yet if any one prepares to burn a house, it is with fire that he arms his daring hands.

Ovid
Fire, Hands, House

Judgement of beauty can err, what with the wine and the dark.

Ovid
Beauty, Wine, Dark

Every delay that postpones our joys, is long. [Lat., Longa mora est nobis omnis, quae gaudia differt.]

Ovid
Long, Joy, Delay

The wounded limb shrinks from the slightest touch; and a slight shadow alarms the nervous. [Lat., Membra reformidant mollem quoque saucia tactum: Vanaque sollicitis incutit umbra metum.]

Ovid
Fear, Shadow, Alarms

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