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• What makes men indifferent to their wives is that they can see them when they please.

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  Marriage, Men, Wife

  Ovid (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)”, p.343, Delphi Classics

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• Often a silent face has voice and words.

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  Voice, Faces, Silent

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• The result proves the wisdom of the act.

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  Results, Prove

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• Love is a thing that is full of cares and fears.

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  Short Love, Love Is, Care

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• Nothing is more useful to man that those arts which have no utility.

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  Art, Men, Utility

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• There is nothing in the whole world which abides. All things are in a state of ebb and flow, and every shadow passes away. Even time itself, like a river, is constantly gliding away .

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  Ebb And Flow, Rivers, Shadow

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• Well has he lived who has lived well in obscurity.

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  Solitude, Obscurity, Wells

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• Love and dignity do not dwell together.

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  Together, Dignity

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• Envy, the meanest of vices, creeps on the ground like a serpent.

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  Envy, Vices, Creeps

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• Love fed fat soon turns to boredom.

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  Boredom, Feds, Fats

  Ovid (1957). “The Loves: The Art of Beauty, The Remedies for Love, and The Art of Love”, p.65, Indiana University Press

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• Keep a mid course between two extremes.

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  Two, Moderation, Extremes

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• How little you know about the age you live in if you think that honey is sweeter than cash in hand

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  Money, Thinking, Hands

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• The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.

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  Prayer, Coward, Fortune

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• All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

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  Evil, Mind, May

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• If thou wouldst marry wisely, marry thine equal.

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  Marriage, Matrimony, Equal

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• Envy assails the noblest: the winds howl around the highest peaks.

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  Jealousy, Wind, Envy

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• The cause is hidden, but the result is known.
  [Lat., Causa latet: vis est notissima.]

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  Causes, Results, Known

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• The more highminded a man is the more easily is his anger appeased.

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  Men

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• What one beholds of a woman is the least part of her.

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  Women

  Ovid (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)”, p.357, Delphi Classics

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• There is no useful thing which may not be turned to an injurious purpose.

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  Purpose, May, Useful Things

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• The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool.

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  Men, Fire, May

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• Rest strengthens the body, the mind too is thus supported; but unremitting toil destroys both.

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  Mind, Toil, Body

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• Work while your strength and years permit you; crooked age will by-and-by come upon you with silent foot.

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  Years, Feet, Age

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• In our play we reveal what kind of people we are.

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  Sports, Play, People

  Ovid (1957). “The Loves: The Art of Beauty, The Remedies for Love, and The Art of Love”, p.164, Indiana University Press

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• Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses.

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  Flower, Rose, Joy

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