Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)

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

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

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.

Make good use of your time, it flies fast.

Make good use of your time, it flies fast.

The raven once in snowy plumes was drest,
White as the whitest dove's unsullied breast,
Fair as read more

The raven once in snowy plumes was drest,
White as the whitest dove's unsullied breast,
Fair as the guardian of the Capitol,
Soft as the swan; a large and lovely fowl
His tongue, his prating tongue had changed him quite
To sooty blackness from the purest white.

Thanks are justly due for things got without purchase.
[Lat., Gratia pro rebus merito debetur inemtis.]

Thanks are justly due for things got without purchase.
[Lat., Gratia pro rebus merito debetur inemtis.]