Maxioms by Ovid (publius Ovidius Naso)
We covet what is guarded; the very care invokes the thief. Few
love what they may have.
[Lat., read more
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.]
Some report elsewhere whatever is told them; the measure of
fiction always increases, and each fresh narrator adds something read more
Some report elsewhere whatever is told them; the measure of
fiction always increases, and each fresh narrator adds something
to what he has heard.
[Lat., Hi narrata ferunt alio; mensuraque ficti
Crescit et auditus aliquid novus adjicit auctor.]
Ill habits gather by unseen degrees,
As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
Ill habits gather by unseen degrees,
As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
Thou beginnest better than thou endest.
The last is inferior to the first.
[Lat., Coepisti melius quam read more
Thou beginnest better than thou endest.
The last is inferior to the first.
[Lat., Coepisti melius quam desinis. Ultima primis cedunt.]
As the hawk is wont to pursue the trembling doves.
[Lat., Ut solet accipiter trepidas agitare columbas.]
As the hawk is wont to pursue the trembling doves.
[Lat., Ut solet accipiter trepidas agitare columbas.]
