To be thoroughly imbued, with the liberal arts refines the manners, and makes men to be mild and gentle in their conduct.
OvidI grabbed a pile of dust, and holding it up, foolishly asked for as many birthdays as the grains of dust, I forgot to ask that they be years of youth.
OvidI am dragged along by a strange new force. Desire and reason are pulling in different directions. I see the right way and approve it, but follow the wrong.
OvidThe spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.
OvidWine, not too much, inspires and make the mind,to the soft joys of Venus strong inclined,which, buried in excess, unapt to love,stupidly lies and knows not hom to move
OvidSeeking is all very well, but holding requires greater talent: Seeking involves some luck; now the demand is for skill.
OvidTime glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.
OvidDevouring Time and envious Age, all things yield to you; and with lingering death you destroy, step by step, with venomed tooth whatever you attack.
OvidFrom high Meonia's rocky shores I came, Of poor decsent, Acoetes is my name, My sire was measly born: no oxen ploughed, His fruitful fields, nor in his pastures lowed, His whole estate within the waters lay' With lines and hooks he caught the finny prey; His art was all his livelehood, which he Thus with his dying lips bequeathed to me: In streams, my boy, and rivers take thy chance; There swims', said he, Thy whole inheritance.
OvidWhy should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.
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