Quote #19

Pure women are only those who have not been asked.

More from Ovid

  1. Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.
  2. Then the omnipotent Father with his thunder made Olympus tremble, and from Ossa hurled Pelion.
  3. Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.
  4. Medio tutissimus ibis.
  5. Nocte latent mendae, vitioque ignoscitur omni, Horaque formosam quamlibet illa facit.
  6. Causa latet, vis est notissima
  7. Expedit esse deos, et, ut expedit, esse putemus.
  8. Fas est et ab hoste doceri.

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