What did Ovid mean by: That you may please others you must be forgetful of yourself. - Ovid Poet · Italy Copy
+ Safety lies in the middle course. [Lat., Medio tutissimus ibis.] Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Ovid, Lying, Moderation, Safety, 0 - Ovid Poet · Italy
+ We covet what is guarded; the very care invokes the thief. Few love what they may have. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Ovid, Care, Thieves, 0 - Ovid Poet · Italy
+ We two [Deucalion and Pyrrha, after the deluge] form a multitude. [Lat., Nos duo turba sumus.] Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Ovid, Future, 0 - Ovid Poet · Italy
+ Concealed sorrow bursts the heart, and rages within us as an internal fire. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Ovid, Fire, Heart, Sorrow, 0 - Ovid Poet · Italy
+ The mind that’s conscious of its rectitude, Laughs at the lies of rumor. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Ovid, Integrity, Laughing, Lying, 0 - Ovid Poet · Italy
+ God gave man an upright countenance to survey the heavens, and to look upward to the stars. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Ovid, Heaven, Stars, 0 - Ovid Poet · Italy
+ We suffer by our proximity. [Who get a blow intended for another.] Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Ovid, Blow, Proximity, Suffering, 0 - Ovid Poet · Italy
+ In war the olive branch of peace is of use. [Lat., Adjuvat in bello pacatae ramus olivae.] Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Ovid, War, 0 - Ovid Poet · Italy
I’ve taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Explain - Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Sculptor · Ukraine
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The liabilities are always 100 percent good. It’s the assets you have to worry about. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
