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Face troubles from their birth, for 'tis too late to cure When long delay has given the evil strength. Haste then; postpone not to the coming hour: tomorrow He'll be less ready who's not ready now.

Face troubles from their birth, for 'tis too late to cure When long delay has given the evil strength. Haste then; postpone not to the coming hour: tomorrow He'll be less ready who's not ready now.

Ovid
Long, Evil, Haste

She only is chaste, who is chaste where there is no danger of detection: she who does not, because she may not, does.

Ovid
Doe, May, Danger

See that you promise: what harm is there in promise? In promises anyone can be rich.

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

We covet what is guarded; the very care invokes the thief. Few love what they may have.

Ovid
Thieves, Care, May

The applause and the favour of our fellow-men Fan even a spark of genius to a flame.

Ovid
Appreciation, Men, Flames

Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him, Easy-going enough once you acknowledge his power.

Ovid
Love, Valentine, Fighting
Ovid (1957). “The Loves: The Art of Beauty, The Remedies for Love, and The Art of Love”, p.16, Indiana University Press

What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

Ovid
Intuition, Reason, Instinct

With wavering steps does fickle fortune stray, Nowhere she finds a firm and fixed abode; But now all smiles, and now again all frowns, She's constant only in inconstancy.

Ovid
Doe, Fickle, Wavering

Let what is irksome become habitual, no more will it trouble you.

Ovid
Routine, Trouble, Habitual

Beauty, if you do not open your doors, takes age from lack of use.

Ovid
Beauty, Doors, Age

Here Jove with Hermes came; but in disguise Of mortal men conceal'd their deities; One laid aside his thunder, one his rod

Ovid
Men, Deities, Thunder
John Dryden, Ovid, Giovanni Boccaccio, Homer, Geoffrey Chaucer (1771). “Dedication to His Grace the Duke of Ormond. The preface. Poem to Her Grace the Dutchess of Ormond. Palamon and Arcite: or, The Knight's tale, from Chaucer (bk. I-III) To my honoured kinsman John Dryden of Chesterton. Meleager and Atalanta, out of the eighth book of Ovid's Metamorphoses. Sigismonda and Guiscardo, from Boccace. Baucis and Philemon, out of the eighth book of Ovid's Metamorphoses. Pygmalion and the statute, out of the tenth book of Ovid's Metamorphoses. Cinyras and Myrrha, out of th”

We are always striving for things forbidden, and coveting those denied us.

Ovid
Desire, Coveting, Strive

When a house is tottering to its fall, The strain lies heaviest on the weakest part, One tiny crack throughout the structure spreads, And its own weight soon brings it toppling down.

Ovid
Lying, Fall, House

What is reason now was passion heretofore.

Ovid
Passion, Reason

The gods behold all righteous actions.

Ovid
Action, Righteous

He who sins easily, sins less. The very power Renders less vigorous the roots of evil.

Ovid
Roots, Evil, Sin

It is expedient that there should be gods, and, since it is expedient, let us believe that gods exist.

Ovid
Art, Philosophy, Believe

Sleep, nature's rest, divine tranquility, That brings peace to the mind.

Ovid
Sleep, Mind, Tranquility

There is a good deal in a man's mode of eating.

Ovid
Men, Eating, Deals

Love is a credulous thing.

Ovid
Life, Love Is
Ovid (1852). “The Heroides: Or Epistles of the Heroines, The Amours, Art of Love, Remedy of Love and Minor Works of Ovid”, p.52

Let those who have deserved their punishment, bear it patiently. [Lat., Aequo animo poenam, qui meruere, ferant.]

Ovid
Punishment, Bears

The vulgar herd estimate friendship by its advantages. [Lat., Vulgus amicitias utilitate probat.]

Ovid
Friendship, Herds, Advantage

Novelty in all things is charming.

Ovid
Novelty, Charming, All Things

My bark, once struck by the fury of the storm, dreads again to approach the place of danger.

Ovid
Storm, Danger, Bark

The rest of the crowd were friends of my fortune, not of me. [Lat., Caetera fortunae, non mea, turba fuit.]

Ovid
Friends, Crowds, Fortune

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