#ma

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

#dear #ever #his #increase #integrity

A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow. ↗

— Ovid

#death #delicate #frown #idea #killed

Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them. ↗

— Ovid

#like #long #many #offered #them

A man is sorry to be honest for nothing. ↗

— Ovid

#man #nothing #sorry #to be honest

What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps; with it alone, she lives. ↗

— Ovid

#does #lives #love #only #she

Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair. ↗

— Ovid

#darkness #every #fair #fault #forgiven

Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery. ↗

— Ovid

#cunning #difference #knavery #leads #lying

Make the workmanship surpass the materials. ↗

— Ovid

#materials #surpass #workmanship

Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul. ↗

— Ovid

#eyes #human #nature #revealed #she

What makes men indifferent to their wives is that they can see them when they please. ↗

— Ovid

#makes #men #please #see #their