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Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)

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Maxioms by Ovid (publius Ovidius Naso)

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Occupy yourself, and you will be out of harm's way.

Occupy yourself, and you will be out of harm's way.

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It is not easy to bear prosperity unruffled.

It is not easy to bear prosperity unruffled.

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Birth and ancestry, and that which we have not ourselves
achieved, we can scarcely call our own.
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Birth and ancestry, and that which we have not ourselves
achieved, we can scarcely call our own.
[Lat., Nam genus et proavos et quae non fecimus ipsi
Vix ea nostra voco.]

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Nothing is stronger than habit.
[Lat., Nil consuetudine majus.]

Nothing is stronger than habit.
[Lat., Nil consuetudine majus.]

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She only is chaste, who is chaste where there is no danger of
detection: she who does not, because read more

She only is chaste, who is chaste where there is no danger of
detection: she who does not, because she may not, does.

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