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• We are all bound thither; we are hastening to the same common goal. Black death calls all things under the sway of its laws.
  [Lat., Tendimus huc omnes; metam properamus ad unam. Omnia sub leges mors vocat atra suas.]

  Ovid

  Death, Law, Goal

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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.

  Ovid

  Art, Teaching, Men

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• What is reason now was passion heretofore.

  Ovid

  Passion, Reason

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• It is prudence that first forsakes the wretched.

  Ovid

  Firsts, Prudence, Wretched

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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

  Ovid

  Desire, Coveting, Strive

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• It is art to conceal art. -Ars est celare artem

  Ovid

  Art

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• Calumny ever pursues the great, even as the winds hurl themselves on high places.

  Ovid

  Wind, Calumny, Slander

  Ovid (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)”, p.358, Delphi Classics

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• A pleasing face is no small advantage.

  Ovid

  Beauty, Faces, Advantage

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• A pious fraud.
  [Lat., Pia fraus.]

  Ovid

  Deceit, Fraud, Pious

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• Every delay that postpones our joys, is long.
  [Lat., Longa mora est nobis omnis, quae gaudia differt.]

  Ovid

  Long, Joy, Delay

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• That fair face will as years roll on lose its beauty, and old age will bring its wrinkles to the brow.

  Ovid

  Wrinkles, Years, Age

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• The wounded limb shrinks from the slightest touch; and a slight shadow alarms the nervous.
  [Lat., Membra reformidant mollem quoque saucia tactum:
  Vanaque sollicitis incutit umbra metum.]

  Ovid

  Fear, Shadow, Alarms

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• The act is judged of by the event.

  Ovid

  Events, Judged

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• Fas est ab hoste doceri.
  One should learn even from one's enemies.

  Ovid

  Enemy, Should

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• By looking at squinting people you learn to squint.

  Ovid

  Squinting, People

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• That you may be beloved, be amiable.

  Ovid

  Love, May, Beloved

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• It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

  Ovid

  Honesty, Annoyed, Purpose

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• If you have a voice, sing; but if you have good arms, then go in for dancing.

  Ovid

  Dance, Voice, Dancing

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• Dripping water hollows out a stone

  Ovid

  Rivers, Water, Environmental

  'Epistulae Ex Ponto' bk. 4, no. 10, l. 5.

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• What ignorance there is in human minds.

  Ovid

  Ignorance, Mind, Humans

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• Thanks are justly due for boons unbought

  Ovid

  Thankful, Gratitude, Thanks

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• Beneath the sun's rays our shadow is our comrade;
  When clouds obscure the sun our shadow flees.
  So Fortune's smiles the fickle crowd pursues,
  But swift is gone whenever she veils her face.

  Ovid

  Clouds, Shadow, Rays

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