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Maxioms by Ovid (publius Ovidius Naso)

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Rest strengthens the body, the mind too is thus supported; but
unremitting toil destroys both.

Rest strengthens the body, the mind too is thus supported; but
unremitting toil destroys both.

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Let the poor man mind his tongue.

Let the poor man mind his tongue.

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It is a kingly act to help the fallen.

It is a kingly act to help the fallen.

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She only is chaste, who is chaste where there is no danger of
detection: she who does not, because read more

She only is chaste, who is chaste where there is no danger of
detection: she who does not, because she may not, does.

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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.]

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