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Your lot is mortal: not mortal is what you desire.
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Poetry comes fine-spun from a mind at peace.
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Of its own accord my song would come in the right rhythms, and what I was trying to say was poetry.
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Envy, the meanest of vices, creeps on the ground like a serpent.
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They come to see; they come that they themselves may be seen.
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Let who does not wish to be idle fall in love!
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Though the strength is lacking, yet the willingness is commendable.
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Happy the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying, once and for all.
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I see the better things, and approve; I follow the worse.
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Although two crimes, a song and a mistake, have done me in.
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'Tis hard, I admit, yet virtue aims at what is hard, and gratitude for such a service will be all the greater.
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Stop it at the start, it's late for medicine to be prepared when disease has grown strong through long delays.
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Love is a child and naked; he has years that know no meanness, and he has no clothes, so that he is open in his ways.
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Envy can scarcely hold back her tears, when she sees nothing to cry about.
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When all the other animals, downcast looked upon the earth, [Prometheus] gave a face raised on high to man, and commanded him to see the sky and raise his high eyes to the stars.
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Let others praise the ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.
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Hence come the hardness of our race and our endurance of toil; and we give proof from what origin we are sprung.
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It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe that there are.
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Nor can one easily find among many thousands a single man who considers virtue its own reward. The very glory of a good deed, if it lacks reward, affects them not; unrewarded uprightness brings them regret. Nothing but profit is prized.
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Love yields to business. If you seek a way out of love, be busy; you'll be safe then.
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No species remains constant: that great renovator of matter
Nature, endlessly fashions new forms from old: there's nothing in the whole universe that perishes, believe me; rather it renews and varies its substance. What we describe as birth is no more than incipient change from a prior state, while dying is merely to quit it. Though the parts may be transported hither and thither, the sum of all matter is constant.
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What lies hid is unknown, and there is no desire for the unknown.
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Perhaps too my name will be joined to theirs [the names of famous poets].
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Thus all things are but altered, nothing dies.
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If you want to be loved, be lovable.
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That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.
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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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