A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
Ovid
A man is sorry to be honest for nothing.
Ovid
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
A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.
Ovid
Against the bold, daring is unsafe.
Ovid
Ah me! love can not be cured by herbs.
Ovid
Alas! how difficult it is not to betray one's guilt by one's looks.
Ovid
All love is vanquished by a succeeding love.
Ovid
All things can corrupt when minds are prone to evil.
Ovid
An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.
Ovid
An evil life is a kind of death.
Ovid
Art lies by its own artifice.
Ovid
At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.
Ovid
Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.
Ovid
Bear patiently with a rival.
Ovid
Beauty is a fragile gift.
Ovid
Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.
Ovid
Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.
Ovid
Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.
Ovid
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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Lucretius, Sextus Propertius, Horace, Virgil, Juvenal, Phaedrus, Quintus Ennius, Lucan
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