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Ovid on Graduation

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Heaven makes sport of human affairs, and the present hour gives no sure promise of the next.

Either do not attempt at all, or go through with it.

Fool, what is sleep but the likeness of icy death? The fates shall give us a long period of rest.

In time the bull is brought to wear the yoke.

The spirited horse, which will of itself strive to beat in the race, will run still more swiftly if encouraged.

Those dreams are true which we have in the morning, as the lamp begins to flicker.

The hunter follows things which flee from him; he leaves them when they are taken; and ever seeks for that which is beyond what he has found.

We two [Deucalion and Pyrrha, after the deluge] form a multitude.

Time, motion and wine cause sleep.

Sleep, rest of nature, O sleep, most gentle of the divinities, peace of the soul, thou at whose presence care disappears, who soothest hearts wearied with daily employments, and makest them strong again for labour!

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ovid (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.