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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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The healing art knows not how to remove crippling gout, it helps not the fearful dropsy.
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There is a place above, where Scorpio bent, In tail and arms surrounds a vast extent; In a wide circuit of the heavens he shines, And fills the place of two celestial signs.
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Ere land and sea and the all-covering sky Were made, in the whole world the countenance Of nature was the same, all one, well named Chaos, a raw and undivided mass, Naught but a lifeless bulk, with warring seeds Of ill-joined elements compressed together.
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Take this at least, this last advice, my son:
Keep a stiff rein, and move but gently on:
The coursers of themselves will run too fast,
Your art must be to moderate their haste.
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Here Jove with Hermes came; but in disguise
Of mortal men conceal'd their deities;
One laid aside his thunder, one his rod
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I have myself seen what once was solid land changed into sea; and again I have seen land made from the sea.
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Niobe would have been called most blessed of mothers,
had she not seemed so herself.
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She that weds well will wisely match her love, Nor be below her husband nor above.
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Tis not always in a physician's power to cure the sick; at times the disease is stronger than trained art.
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Virtue and vice, evil and good, are siblings, or next-door neighbors, Easy to make mistakes, hard to tell them apart.
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Time was when genius was more precious than gold, but
now to have nothing is monstrous barbarism.
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He who holds the hook is aware in what waters many fish are swimming.
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The raven once in snowy plumes was drest,
White as the whitest dove's unsullied breast,
Fair as the guardian of the Capitol,
Soft as the swan; a large and lovely fowl
His tongue, his prating tongue had changed him quite
To sooty blackness from the purest white.
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How little you know about the age you live in if you think that honey is sweeter than cash in hand
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Calumny ever pursues the great, even as the winds hurl themselves on high places.
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But that which is incurable must be cut away with the knife, lest the untainted part also draw infection.
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Love is born of idleness and, once born, by idleness is fostered.
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There is a high way, easily seen when the sky is clear. 'Tis called the Milky Way, famed for its shining whiteness.
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As the mind of each man is conscious of good or evil, so does he conceive within his breast hope or fear, according to his actions.
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Seeking is all very well, but holding requires greater talent: Seeking involves some luck; now the demand is for skill.
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Love is a naked child: do you think he has pockets for money?
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For the sharp medic'cine is the patient's cure.
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The same object will both wound and cure me.
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And thrusts the Scorpion with his bended bow.
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For I've read in many a novel that, unless they've souls that grovel, Folks prefer in fact a hovel to your dreary marble halls.
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Born:
March 20, 43 BC
Died:
17 AD
(aged 60)
Bio:
Publius Ovidius Naso, known as Ovid in the English-speaking world, was a Roman poet who lived during the reign of Augustus.
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