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.
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Ovid
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About Ovid
Publius Ovidius Naso, known in English as Ovid, was a Roman poet who lived during the reign of Augustus. He was a younger contemporary of Virgil and Horace, with whom he is often ranked as one of the three canonical poets of Latin literature. The Imperial scholar Quintilian considered him to be the last of the Latin love elegists. Although Ovid enjoyed enormous popularity during his lifetime, the emperor Augustus exiled him to Tomis, the capital of the newly organized province of Moesia, on the…
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by OvidCourage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.
The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool.
Habits change into character.
The bold adventurer succeeds the best.
Time is generally the best doctor.
Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.
Beauty is a fragile gift.
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Art lies by its own artifice.
Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.
Fair peace becomes men ferocious anger belongs to beasts.
What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps with it alone, she lives.