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Adde, quod ingénues didicisse fideliter artes Emollit mores, nec sinit esse fervos. To be instructed in the arts, softens the manners and makes men gentle.

Adde, quod ingénues didicisse fideliter artes Emollit mores, nec sinit esse fervos. To be instructed in the arts, softens the manners and makes men gentle.

Ovid
Art, Teaching, Men

There is a divinity within our breast.

Ovid
Divinity, Breasts

Simplicity, very rare in our age.

Ovid
Simplicity, Stupidity, Age
Ovid (2015). “The Offense of Love: Ars Amatoria, Remedia Amoris, and Tristia 2”, p.64, University of Wisconsin Pres

That, which has not its alternation of rest, will not last long.

Ovid
Long, Lasts

It is the poor man who'll ever count his flock.

Ovid
Money, Men, Poor

Either attempt it not, or succeed.

Ovid
Success, Succeed

You start in April and cross to the time of May One has you as it leaves, one as it comes Since the edges of these months are yours and defer To you, either of them suits your praises. The Circus continues and the theatre's lauded palm, Let this song, too, join the Circus spectacle.

Ovid
Song, Spring, Theatre

Pursuits become habits. [Lat., Abeunt studia in mores.]

Ovid
Habit, Pursuit

In time the bull is brought to wear the yoke. [Lat., Tempore ruricolae patiens fit taurus aratri.]

Ovid
Education, Yoke, Bulls

Ah me! love can not be cured by herbs.

Ovid
Love, Life, Valentines Day

Those gifts are ever the most acceptable which the giver makes precious. [Lat., Acceptissima semper munera sunt auctor quae pretiosa facit.]

Ovid
Giver, Acceptable

You will be safest in the middle.

Ovid
Middle

Today is truly the Golden Age: gold buys hornor, gold procures love

Ovid
Age, Gold, Today

Good-bye to the lies of the poets. [Lat., Valeant mendacia vatum.]

Ovid
Lying, Bye, Good Bye

The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.

Ovid
Envy, Fields, Crops

Hastiness is the beginning of wrath, and its end repentance.

Ovid
Wrath, Repentance, Ends

Courage conquers all things.

Ovid
Life, Courage, Conquer
Ovid (1988). “Tristia”, Loeb Classical Library

Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.

Ovid
Courage, Drinking, Passion

Dear to the heart of a girl is her own beauty and charm.

Ovid
Girl, Women, Heart
Ovid (1957). “The Loves: The Art of Beauty, The Remedies for Love, and The Art of Love”, p.100, Indiana University Press

Bear patiently with a rival.

Ovid
Patience, Enemy, Rivals

Few people want the pleasures they are free to take.

Ovid
Happiness, People, Joy
Ovid (1932). “The Love Books of Ovid”, p.83, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

A man is sorry to be honest for nothing.

Ovid
Sorry, Honesty, Men

Pluck with quick hand the fruit that passes.

Ovid
Opportunity, Hands, Fruit
Ovid, G. P. Goold (1985). “The art of love, and other poems”

Against the bold, daring is unsafe.

Ovid
Daring, Unsafe

May you live unenvied, and pass many pleasant years unknown to fame; and also have congenial friends. [Lat., Vive sine invidia, mollesque inglorius annos Exige; amicitias et tibi junge pares.]

Ovid
Years, Contentment, May

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