187 ordspråk av Publius Ovidius Naso
Publius Ovidius Naso
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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How things look on the outside of us depends on how things are on the inside of us.
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I am above being injured by fortune, though she steals away much, more will remain with me. The blessing I now enjoy transcend fear.
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I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement.
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I can't live either without you or with you
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I flee who chases me, and chase who flees me
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I hate a woman who offers herself because she ought to do so, and, cold and dry, thinks of her sewing when she's making love
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If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.
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If she is chaste when there is no fear of detection, she is truly chaste; she who sins not because she dare not, does the sin
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If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.
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In an easy cause anyone can be eloquent; the slightest strength is enough to break what is already shattered.
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In an easy matter. Anybody can be eloquent.
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In our play we reveal what kind of people we are
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Instead of weeping when a tragedy occurs in a songbird's life, it sings away its grief. I believe we could well follow the pattern of our feathered friends.
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It is a smaller thing to suffer punishment than to have deserved it
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