Virtue and vice, evil and good, are siblings, or next-door neighbors, Easy to make mistakes, hard to tell them apart.
OvidIt is no less a feat to keep what you have, than to increase it. In one there is chance, the other will be a work of art.
OvidTo have properly studied the liberal sciences gives a polish to our manners, and removes all awkwardness.
OvidVenus is kind to creatures as young as we;We know not what we do, and while we're youngWe have the right to live and love like gods.
OvidI am above being injured by fortune, though she steals away much, more will remain with me. The blessing I now enjoy transcend fear.
OvidTime itself flows on with constant motion, just like a river: for no more than a river can the fleeting hour stand still. As wave is driven on by wave, and, itself pursued, pursues the one before, so the moments of time at once flee and follow, and are ever new.
OvidWomen's words are as light as the doomed leaves whirling in autumn, Easily swept by the wind, easily drowned by the wave.
OvidSome people think that because they do the opposite of what they are asked to do, they have initiative
OvidIt is but a small merit to observe silence, but it is a grave fault to speak of matters on which we should be silent.
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