amor crevit tempore
OvidNitimur in vetitum" -- "We strive after the forbidden
OvidDripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.
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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
OvidO gods, \ If any gods will listen, I deserve \ Punishment surely, I do not refuse it, \ But lest, in living, I offend the living, Offend the dead in death, drive me away \ From either realm, change me somehow, refuse me \ Both life and death!
-- Myrrha, before being transformed into a tree
When he, whoever of the gods it was, had thus arranged in order and resolved that chaotic mass, and reduced it, thus resolved, to cosmic parts, he first moulded the Earth into the form of a mighty ball so that it might be of like form on every side … And, that no region might be without its own forms of animate life, the stars and divine forms occupied the floor of heaven, the sea fell to the shining fishes for their home, Earth received the beasts, and the mobile air the birds … Then Man was born:… though all other animals are prone, and fix their gaze upon the earth, he gave to Man an uplifted face and bade him stand erect and turn his eyes to heaven.
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Today is truly the Golden Age: gold buys hornor, gold procures love
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In our play we reveal what kind of people we are
OvidIt is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are.
OvidQui non est hodie eras minus aptus erit. He who is not prepared today will be less so tomorrow.
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