Maxioms by Ovid (publius Ovidius Naso)
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.]
It is not easy to bear prosperity unruffled.
It is not easy to bear prosperity unruffled.
The wounded gladiator forswears all fighting, but soon forgetting
his former wound resumes his arms.
[Lat., Saucius ejurat read more
The wounded gladiator forswears all fighting, but soon forgetting
his former wound resumes his arms.
[Lat., Saucius ejurat pugnam gladiator, et idem
Immemor antiqui vulneris arma capit.]
Those graceful groves that shade the plain,
Where Tiber rolls majestic to the main,
And flattens, as read more
Those graceful groves that shade the plain,
Where Tiber rolls majestic to the main,
And flattens, as he runs, the fair campagne.
Habit had made the custom.
[Lat., Morem fecerat usus.]
Habit had made the custom.
[Lat., Morem fecerat usus.]
