God gave man an upright countenance to survey the heavens, and to look upward to the stars.
My intention is to tell of bodies changed into new forms.
Where crime is taught from early years, it becomes a part of nature.
Few love what they may have.
Beauty is heaven's gift, and how few can boast of beauty.
He who holds the hook is aware in what waters many fish are swimming.
By faithful study of the nobler arts, our nature's softened, and more gentle grows.
Nor is there any law more just, than that he who has plotted death shall perish by his own plot.
The judge's duty is to inquire about the time, as well as the facts.
She that weds well will wisely match her love, Nor be below her husband nor above.
A frail gift is beauty, which grows less as time draws on, and is devoured by its own years.
Resist beginnings: it is too late to employ medicine when the evil has grown strong by inveterate habit.
Poetry comes fine-spun from a mind at peace.
That load becomes light which is cheerfully borne.
It is good to be taught even by an enemy
For this reason, if you believe proverbs, let me tell you the common one: "It is unlucky to marry in May.
Great is the strife between beauty and modesty.
Alas! How difficult it is to prevent the countenance from betraying guilt!
A woman is always buying something.
I have never injured anybody with a mordant poem; my verse contains charges against nobody. Ingenuous, I have shunned wit steeped in venom--not a letter of mine is dipped in poisonous jest.
Every woman thinks herself attractive; even the plainest is satisfied with the charms she deems that she possesses.
If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.
Everything changes, nothing is lost.
Love is a believing creature.
Leve fit quod bene fertur onus. The burden which is well borne becomes light.
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