This letter gives me a tongue; and were I not allowed to write, I should be dumb. [Lat., Praebet mihi littera linguam: Et, si non liceat scribere, mutus ero.]
The gods have their own rules. - Ovid
The gods have their own rules.
- Ovid
Good hope is often beguiled by her own augury. - Ovid
Good hope is often beguiled by her own augury.
He who says o'er much I love not is in love. - Ovid
He who says o'er much I love not is in love.
I see and approve better things, but follow worse. - Ovid
I see and approve better things, but follow worse.
If you are not ready today, you will be even less so tomorrow. - Ovid
If you are not ready today, you will be even less so tomorrow.
Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence. - Ovid
Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.
A field becomes exhausted by constant tillage. - Ovid
A field becomes exhausted by constant tillage.
Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you. - Ovid
Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.
Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all. - Ovid
Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.
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