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Maxioms by Ovid (publius Ovidius Naso)

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Fortune and love favour the brave.
[Lat., Audentum Forsque Venusque juvant.]

Fortune and love favour the brave.
[Lat., Audentum Forsque Venusque juvant.]

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Neither shall the wave, which has passed on, ever be recalled;
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Neither shall the wave, which has passed on, ever be recalled;
nor can the hour, which has once fled by, return again.

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The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.
[Lat., Poena potest demi, culpa perennis erit.]

The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.
[Lat., Poena potest demi, culpa perennis erit.]

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I am not ashamed that these reproaches can be cast upon us, and
that they can not be repelled.
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I am not ashamed that these reproaches can be cast upon us, and
that they can not be repelled.
[Lat., Pudet haec opprobria nobis
Et dici potuisse et non potuisse repelli.]

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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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