Ovid Quotes, Lying Quotes, Fall Quotes

When a house is tottering to its fall, The strain lies heaviest on the weakest part, One tiny crack throughout the structure spreads, And its own weight soon brings it toppling down.

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It 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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Thou beginnest better than thou endest. The last is inferior to the first. [Lat., Coepisti melius quam desinis. Ultima primis cedunt.]

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Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts. [Lat., Candida pax homines, trux decet ira feras.]

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Skill makes love unending.

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Fas est ab hoste doceri. One should learn even from one's enemies.

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There is no small pleasure in pure water.

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It is a kingly act to help the fallen.

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The cause is hidden; the effect is visible to all.

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The ungovernable passion for wealth. [Lat., Opum furiata cupido.]

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Wine prepares the heart for love, unless you take too much.

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Do not believe hastily.

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Dear to the heart of a girl is her own beauty and charm.

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Love, and a cough, are not concealed.

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Who gives to Aristaeus honey; Or wine to Bacchus, or Triptolemus Earth's fruits, or apples to Alcinous?

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It is art to conceal art. -Ars est celare artem

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From 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.

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What we call birth Is but a beginning to be something else Than what we were before; and when we cease To be that something, then we call it death.

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It's useful that there should be Gods, so let's believe there are.

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Every woman thinks herself attractive; even the plainest is satisfied with the charms she deems that she possesses.

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