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Posted on April 30, 2022

“You who seek an end of love—love will yield to busyness: be busy, and you will be safe.”—Publius Ovid, Roman poet, 43 BC–18 AD

Posted on January 31, 2022

“These success encourages: they can because they think they can.”—Virgil, Roman poet, 70-19 BC

Posted on November 9, 2021November 9, 2021

“Absence makes the heart grow fonder.”—Sextus Propertius, Roman poet, 1st century BC

Posted on August 14, 2021August 14, 2021

“I see and praise better things; I do worse ones.”—Publius Ovid, Roman poet, 43 BC-18 AD

Posted on March 7, 2021March 7, 2021

“We cannot all do everything.”—Virgil, Roman poet, 1st century BC

Posted on September 6, 2020

“Nothing is stronger than habit.”—Publius Ovid, Roman poet, 43 BC–18 AD

Posted on October 7, 2017October 7, 2017

“A traveller with empty pockets can whistle in a robber’s face.”—Juvenal, Roman poet, 1st-2nd century AD

Posted on July 16, 2017July 16, 2017

“Fortune favors the brave.”—Virgil, Roman poet, 1st century BC

Posted on July 5, 2017July 5, 2017

“Never despair.”—Horace, Roman poet, 1st century BC

Posted on June 13, 2017June 13, 2017

“The monkey is repulsive; he’s much too much like us!—Quintus Ennius, Roman poet, 239-169 BC

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