Maxioms by Ovid (publius Ovidius Naso)
Diseases of the mind impair the bodily powers.
[Lat., Vitiant artus aegrae contagia mentis.]
Diseases of the mind impair the bodily powers.
[Lat., Vitiant artus aegrae contagia mentis.]
We covet what is guarded; the very care invokes the thief. Few
love what they may have.
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We covet what is guarded; the very care invokes the thief. Few
love what they may have.
[Lat., Quicquid servatur, cupimus magis: ipsaque furem
Cura vocat. Pauci, quod sinit alter, amant.]
Riches too increase, and the maddening craving for gold,
So that men ever seek for more, that they may read more
Riches too increase, and the maddening craving for gold,
So that men ever seek for more, that they may have the most.
It is a pleasure appropriate to man, for him to save a
fellow-man, and gratitude is acquired in no read more
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.]
Bear and forbear.
Bear and forbear.