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While strength and years permit, endure labor; soon bent old age will come with silent foot. [Lat., Dum vires annique sinunt, tolerate labores. Jam veniet tacito curva senecta pede.]

While strength and years permit, endure labor; soon bent old age will come with silent foot. [Lat., Dum vires annique sinunt, tolerate labores. Jam veniet tacito curva senecta pede.]

Ovid
Feet, Years, Age

Nothing is so high and above all danger that is not below and in the power of God. [Lat., Nihil ita sublime est, supraque pericula tendit Non sit ut inferius suppositumque deo.]

Ovid
God, Sublime, Danger

As God is propitiated by the blood of a hundred bulls, so also is he by the smallest offering of incense. [Lat., Sed tamen ut fuso taurorum sanguine centum, Sic capitur minimo thuris honore deux.]

Ovid
God, Offering, Blood

Even pleasure cloys without variety.

Ovid
Pleasure, Variety

Man should ever look to his last day, and no one should be called happy before his funeral. [Lat., Ultima semper Expectanda dies homini est, dicique beatus Ante obitum nemo et suprema funera debet.]

Ovid
Death, Men, Funeral

In your judgment virtue requires no reward, and is to be sought for itself, unaccompanied by external benefits. [Lat., Judice te mercede caret, per seque petenda est Externis virtus incomitata bonis.]

Ovid
Benefits, Rewards, Judgment

Nothing in the entire universe ever perishes, believe me, but things vary, and adopt a new form. The phrase being born is used for beginning to be something different from what one was before, while dying means ceasing to be the same. Though this thing may pass into that, and that into this, yet the sums of things remains unchanged.

Ovid
Believe, Mean, Dying

Winged time glides on insensibly, and deceive us; and there is nothing more fleeting than years.

Ovid
Years, Fleeting, Deceiving
Ovid (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)”, p.1010, Delphi Classics

Struggling over my fickle heart, love draws it now this way, and now hate that--but love, I think, is winning. I will hate, if I have strength; if not, I shall love unwilling.

Ovid
Love, Hate, Struggle
Ovid (1977). “Heroides and Amores”, Heinemann Young Books

Thou fool, what is sleep but the image of death? Fate will give an eternal rest. [Lat., Stulte, quid est somnus, gelidae nisi mortis imago? Longa quiescendi tempora fata dabunt.]

Ovid
Death, Sleep, Fate

Though the strength is lacking, yet the willingness is commendable.

Ovid
Lacking, Willingness, Commendable
'Epistulae Ex Ponto' bk. 3, no. 4, l. 79

If the subject's easy we may all be wise; What stands unfirm, the smallest force overthrows.

Ovid
Wise, Wisdom, May

In war the olive branch of peace is of use. [Lat., Adjuvat in bello pacatae ramus olivae.]

Ovid
War, Use, Olive Branches

There is a God within us and intercourse with heaven. [Lat., Est deus in nobis; et sunt commercia coeli.]

Ovid
God, Heaven, Intercourse

Friendship is but a name, faith is an empty name. Alas, it is not safe to praise to a friend the object of your love; as soon as he believes your praises, he slips into your place.

Ovid
Friendship, Believe, Names
Ovid, G. P. Goold (1985). “The art of love, and other poems”

Tempus edax rerum. Time that devours all things.

Ovid
Time, All Things

Pride is innate in beauty, and haughtiness is the companion of the fair.

Ovid
Pride, Haughtiness, Companion

Our neighbour's crop is always more fruitful and his cattle produce more milk than our own.

Ovid
Milk, Crops, Produce

Art lies in concealing art.

Ovid
Art, Lying, Concealing

I am an exile; but it is the fault that pains; The punishment is nought; that it is deserved Is all the pain.

Ovid
Pain, Punishment, Faults

Indulgent gods, grant me to sin once with impunity. That is sufficient. Let a second offence bear its punishment.

Ovid
Punishment, Bears, Sin

Every lover is a soldier.

Ovid
Alaska, Soldier, Lovers
Ovid (1997). “Ovid's Metamorphoses”, p.280, University of Oklahoma Press

Skilled in every trick, a worthy heir of his paternal craft, he would make black look like white, and white look black. [Lat., Furtum ingeniosus ad omne, Qui facere assueret, patriae non degener artis, Candida de nigris, et de candentibus atra.]

Ovid
White, Black, Deceit

There is no pleasure pure and simple, and some care always comes to mar our joys.

Ovid
Simple, Joy, Mars

She who resists as though she would not win, By her own treason falls an easy prey.

Ovid
Betrayal, Fall, Winning

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