Quote #72
Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.
More from Ovid
- Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
- My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.
- Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.
- No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integri…
- Make the workmanship surpass the materials.
- Our minds are circumscribed by our immediate reality but we stop short at the thought of it.
- Love is full of anxious fears.
- Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.