Ovid

Ancient Rome
-43 // 17
Poet

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As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity
It is the mind that makes the man, and our vigour is in our immortal soul
Some report elsewhere whatever is told them; the measure of fiction always increases, and each fresh narrator adds something to what he has heard
I see and approve better things, I follow the worse
You will hardly conquer, but conquer you must
Before he is dead and buried no one ought to be called happy
Pursuits become habits
Every delay that postpones our joys, is long
Where crime is taught from early years, it becomes a part of nature
We are slow to believe what if believed would hurt our feelings
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