Alluring pleasure is said to have softened the savage dispositions (of early mankind). [Lat., Blanda truces animos fertur mollisse voluptas.]
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.
Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence. - Ovid
Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.
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.
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.
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.
A field becomes exhausted by constant tillage. - Ovid
A field becomes exhausted by constant tillage.
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