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Ants do not bend their ways to empty barns, so no friend will visit the place of departed wealth.

— Ovid

Horrea formicæ tendunt ad inania nunquam
Nullus ad amissas ibit amicus opes.

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Jupiter from on high laughs at the perjuries of lovers.

Often a silent face has voice and words.

If you give up your quiet life, the bow of Cupid will lose its power.

Tis hard, I admit, yet virtue aims at what is hard, and gratitude for such a service will be all the greater.

Let the man who does not wish to be idle fall in love!

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