Quote #77
People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.
More from Ovid
- Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.
- Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength.
- Our minds are circumscribed by our immediate reality but we stop short at the thought of it.
- Take rest; a field that has rested gives a beautiful crop.
- 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…
- Tears at times have all the weight of speech.
- My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.
- The burden which is well borne becomes light.