Quote #6
Poetry comes fine-spun from a mind at peace.
More from Ovid
- Qui finem quaeris amoris/Cedit amor rebus; res age, tutus eris.
- So long as you are secure you will count many friends; if your life becomes clouded you will be alone.
- Resist beginnings; the prescription comes too late when the disease has gained strength by long delays.
- It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.
- Exitus acta probat.
- Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.
- Sic ego nec sine te nec tecum vivere possum.
- The mind, conscious of rectitude, laughed to scorn the falsehood of report.