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Ovid

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Habits change into character.


— Ovid


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Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.


— Ovid


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Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.


— Ovid


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Either do not attempt at all, or go through with it.


— Ovid


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A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.


— Ovid


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Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.


— Ovid


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Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.


— Ovid


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Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.


— Ovid


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Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery.


— Ovid


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Daring is not safe against daring men.


— Ovid


#daring #men #safe






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Did you know about Ovid?

The chronology of these early works is not secure; tentative dates however have been establiOvidd by scholars. 19–20). 4.

Ovid was also the author of several smaller pieces the Remedia Amoris the Medicamina Faciei Femineae and the long curse-poem Ibis. He is considered a master of the elegiac couplet and is traditionally ranked alongside Virgil and Horace as one of the three canonic poets of Latin literature. He is also well known for the Fasti about the Roman calendar and the Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto two collections of poems written in exile on the Black Sea.

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