Ovid

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Love is a kind of warfare.
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Collection: Love
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Anything cracked will shatter at a touch.
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Collection: Cracked
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Eurydice, dying now a second time, uttered no complaint against her husband. What was there to complain of, but that she had been loved?
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Collection: Husband
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Although they posses enough, and more than enough still they yearn for more.
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Collection: Wealth
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The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.
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Collection: Love
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Dripping water hollows out a stone
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Collection: Rivers
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What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.
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Collection: Intuition
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Fortune resists half-hearted prayers.
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Collection: Prayer
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It is art to conceal art. -Ars est celare artem
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Collection: Art
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Venus is kind to creatures as young as we;We know not what we do, and while we're youngWe have the right to live and love like gods.
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Collection: And Love
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Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.
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Collection: Heart
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Who would have known of Hector, if Troy had been happy? The road to valor is built by adversity.
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Collection: Adversity
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A pleasing face is no small advantage.
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Collection: Beauty
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According to the state of a man's conscience, so do hope and fear on account of his deeds arise in his mind.
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Collection: Men
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Women's words are as light as the doomed leaves whirling in autumn, Easily swept by the wind, easily drowned by the wave.
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Collection: Women
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We covet what is guarded; the very care invokes the thief. Few love what they may have.
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Collection: Thieves
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In an easy cause any man may be eloquent.
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Collection: Men
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Dear to girls' hearts is their own beauty.
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Collection: Girl
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We are always striving for things forbidden, and coveting those denied us.
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Collection: Desire
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The love of country is more powerful than reason itself.
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Collection: Country
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Sleep ... peace of the soul, who puttest care to flight.
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Collection: Sleep
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A broken fortune is like a falling column; the lower it sinks, the greater weight it has to sustain.
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Collection: Fall
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Beauty, if you do not open your doors, takes age from lack of use.
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Collection: Beauty
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I am the poet of the poor, because I was poor when I loved; since I could not give gifts, I gave words.
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Collection: Giving
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Meet the disorder in the outset, the medicine may be too late, when the disease has gained ground through delay.
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Collection: Medicine
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Envy assails the noblest: the winds howl around the highest peaks.
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Collection: Jealousy
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When the roses are gone, nothing is left but the thorn.
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Collection: Memories
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What makes men indifferent to their wives is that they can see them when they please.
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Collection: Marriage
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As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.
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Collection: Honesty