Ovid

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If you count the sunny and the cloudy days of the whole year, you will find that the sunshine predominates.
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Collection: Happiness
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Pure women are only those who have not been asked.
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Collection: Pure
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A field becomes exhausted by constant tillage.
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Collection: Agriculture
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The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.
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Collection: Reality
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I shall speak facts; but some will say I deal in fiction.
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Collection: Fiction
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Skill makes love unending.
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Collection: Love
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Rest strengthens the body, the mind too is thus supported; but unremitting toil destroys both.
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Collection: Mind
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Often a silent face has voice and words.
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Collection: Voice
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Every one who repeats it adds something to the scandal. [The rolling snow-ball.]
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Collection: Snow
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The brave find a home in every land.
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Collection: Home
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The mind ill at ease, the body suffers also.
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Collection: Mind
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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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Collection: Ebb And Flow
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The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.
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Collection: Men
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Those gifts are ever more precious which the giver has made precious.
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Collection: Made
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Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.
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Collection: Time
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Happy the man who ventures boldly to defend what he holds dear.
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Collection: Courage
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I cannot keep track of all the vagaries of fashion, Every day, so it seems, brings in a different style.
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Collection: Fashion
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Time spent in the cultivation of the fields passes very pleasantly.
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Collection: Agriculture
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Love is a kind of military service
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Collection: Military
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The man who falls in love chill find plenty of occupation.
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Collection: Falling In Love
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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
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Collection: Time
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O ye gods! what thick encircling darkness blinds the minds of men!
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Collection: Men
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He whom all hate all wish to see destroyed.
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Collection: Hate
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Let what is irksome become habitual, no more will it trouble you.
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Collection: Routine
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The glow of inspiration warms us; this holy rapture springs from the seeds of the Divine mind sown in man.
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Collection: Spring
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What ignorance there is in human minds.
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Collection: Ignorance
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The gods behold all righteous actions.
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Collection: Action
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Beauty is a frail good.
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Collection: Beauty
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Even the gods are moved by the voice of entreaty.
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Collection: Voice
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A wealthy traveller fears an ambush, while one with empty pockets journeys on in safety.
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Collection: Journey
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Love and dignity do not dwell together.
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Collection: Together
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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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Collection: Money
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I am dragged along by a strange new force. Desire and reason are pulling in different directions. I see the right way and approve it, but follow the wrong.
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Collection: Desire
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To be silent is but a small virtue; but it is a serious fault to reveal secrets.
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Collection: Silence
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When you have set yourself a task finish it.
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Collection: Tasks
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The time will come when you will hate the sight of a mirror.
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Collection: Hate
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Do not believe hastily.
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Collection: Believe