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Giving requires good sense. [Lat., Rest est ingeniosa dare.]

Giving requires good sense. [Lat., Rest est ingeniosa dare.]

Ovid
Giving, Dare, Good Sense

Love's dominion, like a kings, admits of no partition.

Ovid
Love, Kings, Dominion
Ovid (1932). “The Love Books of Ovid”, p.187, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

A bitter drug oft brings relief.

Ovid
Drug, Relief, Bitter

Love is born of idleness and, once born, by idleness is fostered.

Ovid
Love Is, Born, Idleness
Ovid (1932). “The Love Books of Ovid”, p.203, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

Have consideration for wounded feelings.

Ovid
Feelings, Consideration, Wounded

A soldier when aged is not appreciated; the love of an old man sickens.

Ovid
Men, Soldier, Appreciated

That you may please others you must be forgetful of yourself.

Ovid
People, May, Forgetful

There are a thousand forms of evil; there will be a thousand remedies.

Ovid
Evil, Form, Thousand

It is some alleviation to ills we cannot cure to speak of them.

Ovid
Speak, Cures

Grief is put to flight and assuaged by generous draughts.

Ovid
Grief, Flight, Draught

Take away leisure and Cupid's bow is broken

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

Dear to girls' hearts is their own beauty.

Ovid
Girl, Heart, Vanity

Imperceptibly the hours glide on, and beguile us as they pass.

Ovid
Hours

We have ploughed the vast ocean in a fragile bark.

Ovid
Ocean, Sea, Ships

Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

Ovid
Heart, Feelings, Details

Riches too increase, and the maddening craving for gold, So that men ever seek for more, that they may have the most.

Ovid
Men, Gold, May

A pleasing countenance is no slight disadvantage. [Lat., Auxilium non leve vultus habet.]

Ovid
Beauty, Disadvantages, Countenance

Beauty is a frail good.

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Beauty, Frail

Grant me profits only, grant me the joy of profit made, and see to it that I enjoy cheating the buyer!

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Cheating, Joy, Made
Ovid (1929). “Fastorum libri sex: the Fasti of Ovid”

Tis on the living Envy feeds. She silent grows When, after death, man's honor is his guard. So I, when on the pyre consumed I lie, Shall live, for all that's noblest will survive.

Ovid
Death, Lying, Men

The gods see the deeds of the righteous. [Lat., Di pia facta vident.]

Ovid
Deeds, Righteous

The deeds of men never escape the gods. [Lat., Acta deos nunquam mortalia fallunt.]

Ovid
Men, Deeds

It is lawful to be taught by an enemy. Fas est ab hoste doceri.

Ovid
Teaching, Enemy, Taught

The art of medicine in the season lies: Wine given in season oft will benefit, Which out of season injures.

Ovid
Art, Lying, Healing

Death is not grievous to me, for I shall lay aside my pains by death. [Lat., Nec mihi mors gravis est posituro morte dolores.]

Ovid
Death, Pain, Lays

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