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Resist beginnings: it is too late to employ medicine when the
evil has grown strong by inveterate habit.
[Lat., Principiis obsta: sero medicina paratur,
Cum mala per longas convaluere moras.]
Beginnings
Quotes, by Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) , Source: Remedia Amoris (XCI)
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Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is
corrupted unless it moves.
[Lat., Cernis ut ignavum corrumpant otia corpus
Ut capiant vitium ni moveantur aquae.]
Idleness
Quotes, by Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) , Source: Epistoloe Ex Ponto (I, 5, 5)
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I am not ashamed that these reproaches can be cast upon us, and
that they can not be repelled.
[Lat., Pudet haec opprobria nobis
Et dici potuisse et non potuisse repelli.]
Shame
Quotes, by Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) , Source: Metamorphoses (bk. I, 758)
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Here shame dissuades him, there his fear prevails,
And each by turns his aching heart assails.
Shame
Quotes, by Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) , Source: Metamorphoses (bk. III, Transformation of Actoeon, l. 73), (Addison's translation)
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Indulgent gods, grant me to sin once with impunity. That is
sufficient. Let a second offence bear its punishment.
[Lat., Di faciles, peccasse semel concedite tuto:
Id satis est. Peonam culpa secunda ferat.]
Sin
Quotes, by Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) , Source: Amorum (bk. II, 14, 43)
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He who has it in his power to commit sin, is less inclined to do
so. The very idea of being able, weakens the desire.
[Lat., Cui peccare licet peccat minus. Ipsa potestas
Semina nequitiae languidiora facit.]
Sin
Quotes, by Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) , Source: Amorum (III, 4, 9)
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If Jupiter hurled his thunderbolt as often as men sinned, he
would soon be out of thunderbolts.
[Lat., Si quoties homines peccant sua fulmina mittat
Jupiter, exiguo tempore inermis erit.]
Sin
Quotes, by Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) , Source: Tristium (II, 33)
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Some report elsewhere whatever is told them; the measure of
fiction always increases, and each fresh narrator adds something
to what he has heard.
[Lat., Hi narrata ferunt alio; mensuraque ficti
Crescit et auditus aliquid novus adjicit auctor.]
Rumor
Quotes, by Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) , Source: Metamorphoses (XII, 57)
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The mind conscious of innocence despises false reports: but we
are a set always ready to believe a scandal.
[Lat., Conscia mens recti famae mendacia risit:
Sed nos in vitium credula turba sumus.]
Scandal
Quotes, by Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) , Source: Fasti (IV, 311)
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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.
Ravens
Quotes, by Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) , Source: Metamorphoses--Story of Coronis, (Addison's translation)
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It is a pleasure appropriate to man, for him to save a
fellow-man, and gratitude is acquired in no better way.
[Lat., Conveniens homini est hominem servare voluptas.
Et melius nulla quaeritur arte favor.]
Gratitude
Quotes, by Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) , Source: Epistoloe Ex Ponto (II, 9, 39)
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Envy assails the noblest: the winds howl around the highest
peaks.
[Lat., Summa petit livor: perflant altissima venti.]
Envy
Quotes, by Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) , Source: Remedia Amoris (CCCLXIX)
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All human things hang on a slender thread, the strongest fall
with a sudden crash.
[Lat., Omnia sunt hominum tenui pendentia filo:
Et subito casu, quae valuere, ruunt.]
Uncertainty
Quotes, by Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) , Source: Epistoloe Ex Ponto (IV, 3, 35)
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Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is
forced to multiply its strength.
[Lat., Strangulat inclusus dolor, atque exaestuat intus,
Cogitur et vires multiplicare suas.]
Grief
Quotes, by Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) , Source: Tristium (V, 1, 63)
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