I am above being injured by fortune, though she steals away much, more will remain with me. The blessing I now enjoy transcend fear.
OvidSeeking is all very well, but holding requires greater talent: Seeking involves some luck; now the demand is for skill.
OvidTo have properly studied the liberal sciences gives a polish to our manners, and removes all awkwardness.
OvidNothing retains its form; new shapes from old. Nature, the great inventor, ceaselessly contrives. In all creation, be assured, there is no death - no death, but only change and innovation; what we men call birth is but a different new beginning; death is but to cease to be the same. Perhaps this may have moved to that, and that to this, yet still the sum of things remains the same.
Ovid