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Ovid Quotes

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 integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.
Ovid

Biography

Author Profession: Poet
Nationality: Roman
Born: 43 BC
Died: 17 AD

Links

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There is a god within us.
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Either do not attempt at all, or go through with it.
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He who can believe himself well, will be well.
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