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• Wine stimulates the mind and makes it quick with heat; care flees and is dissolved in much drink.

  Ovid

  Wine, Mind, Care

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• By arts, sails, and oars, ships are rapidly moved; arts move the
  light chariot, and establish love.
  [Lat., Arte citae veloque rates remoque moventur;
  Arte levis currus, arte regendus Amor.]

  Ovid

  Art, Moving, Light

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• Thou beginnest better than thou endest.
  The last is inferior to the first.
  [Lat., Coepisti melius quam desinis. Ultima primis cedunt.]

  Ovid

  Ultima, Lasts, Firsts

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• Safety lies in the middle course.
  [Lat., Medio tutissimus ibis.]

  Ovid

  Lying, Safety, Moderation

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• Take this at least, this last advice, my son:
  Keep a stiff rein, and move but gently on:
  The coursers of themselves will run too fast,
  Your art must be to moderate their haste.

  Ovid

  Running, Art, Moving

  Ovid (1998). “Metamorphoses”, p.41, Wordsworth Editions

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• And I will capture your minds with sweet novelty.
  [Lat., Dulcique animos novitate tenebo.]

  Ovid

  Sweet, Mind, Novelty

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• Beauty is a frail good.

  Ovid

  Beauty, Frail

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

  Ovid

  Beauty, Disadvantages, Countenance

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• You will hardly conquer, but conquer you must.
  [Lat., Male vincetis, sed vincite.]

  Ovid

  Males, Conquer, Conquest

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• The love of fame usually spurs on the mind.
  [Lat., Ingenio stimulos subdere fama solet.]

  Ovid

  Mind, Spurs, Fame

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• A broken fortune is like a falling column; the lower it sinks, the greater weight it has to sustain.

  Ovid

  Fall, Broken, Weight

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• The most wretched fortune is safe; for there is no fear of anything worse.
  [Lat., Fortuna miserrima tuta est:
  Nam timor eventus deterioris abest.]

  Ovid

  Safe, No Fear, Fortune

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• Every man should stay within his own fortune.
  [Lat., Intera fortunam quisque debet manere suam.]

  Ovid

  Men, Should, Fortune

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

  Ovid

  Friendship, Herds, Advantage

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• The god we now behold with opened eyes,
  A herd of spotted panthers round him lies
  In glaring forms; the grapy clusters spread
  On his fair brows, and dangle on his head.

  Ovid

  Lying, Eye, Panthers

  Ovid, “Metamorphoses: Book The Third”

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• 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

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• 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

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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.]

  Ovid

  Feet, Years, Age

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• Ah me! love can not be cured by herbs.
  [Lat., Hei mihi! quod nullis amor est medicabilis herbis.]

  Ovid

  Love, Amor, Herbs

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• If thou wishest to put an end to love, attend to business (love yields to employment); then thou wilt be safe.
  [Lat., Qui finem quaeris amoris,
  (Cedit amor rebus) res age; tutus eris.]

  Ovid

  Love, Yield, Age

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• Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts.
  [Lat., Candida pax homines, trux decet ira feras.]

  Ovid

  Peace, Men, Ira

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

  Ovid

  Punishment, Bears

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

  Ovid

  Storm, Danger, Bark

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• Novelty in all things is charming.

  Ovid

  Novelty, Charming, All Things

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