What did Ovid mean by: Wine stimulates the mind and makes it quick with heat; care flees and is dissolved in much drink. - Ovid Poet · Italy Copy
+ We are always striving for things forbidden, and coveting those denied us. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Ovid, Desire, Strive, 0 - Ovid Poet · Italy
+ The sick mind can not bear anything harsh. [Lat., Mensque pati durum sustinet aegra nihil.] Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Ovid, Mind, Sick, 0 - Ovid Poet · Italy
+ Fair peace is becoming to men; fierce anger belongs to beasts. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Ovid, Anger, Becoming, 0 - Ovid Poet · Italy
+ Men should not care too much for good looks; neglect is becoming. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Ovid, Care, 0 - Ovid Poet · Italy
+ The cause is hidden, but the result is known. [Lat., Causa latet: vis est notissima.] Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Ovid, Results, 0 - Ovid Poet · Italy
+ Time is a stream which glides smoothly on and is past before we know. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Ovid, Past, Streams, 0 - Ovid Poet · Italy
+ If the subject’s easy we may all be wise; What stands unfirm, the smallest force overthrows. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Ovid, Wisdom, Wise, 0 - Ovid Poet · Italy
+ It is not safe to despise what Love commands. He reigns supreme, and rules the mighty gods. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Ovid, Reign, Safe, 0 - Ovid Poet · Italy
One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds – habits and novelty. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
A well-born man is fortunate, but so is the man about whom people no longer ask, ‘is he well-born?’ Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Avant-garde art jousts with propriety, but takes care never to unseat it. - Mason Cooley Professor · USA
Timorous minds are much more inclined to deliberate than to resolve. - Jean Francois Paul de Gondi Clergy · France
I didn’t mind my own company as a child; I was happy playing alone in the sandpit. - Michael Leunig Cartoonist · Australia
