Famous Ovid Quotations

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"Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all."
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"A man is sorry to be honest for nothing."
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"The burden which is well borne becomes light."
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"The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses."
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"The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged."
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"To feel our ills is one thing, but to cure them is another."
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"What is without periods of rest will not endure."
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"What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct."
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"Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with."
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"Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft."
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"Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay."
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"Daring is not safe against daring men."
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"Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned."
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"I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement."
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"It is annoying to be honest to no purpose."
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"In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are."
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"Make the workmanship surpass the materials."
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"Like fragile ice anger passes away in time."
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"Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear."
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"Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships; the poor man everywhere lies low."
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"People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude."
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"Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop."
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"Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel."
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"Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body."
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"Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love."
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"Art lies by its own artifice."
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"Envy aims very high."
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"Bear patiently with a rival."
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"Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good."
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"Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair."
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"The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late."
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"Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him, Easy-going enough once you acknowledge his power."
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"Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer."
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"First appearance deceives many."
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"A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace."
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"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."
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"A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward."
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"Against the bold, daring is unsafe."
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"Alas! how difficult it is not to betray one's guilt by one's looks."
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"All love is vanquished by a succeeding love."
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"All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil."
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"All things change, nothing perishes."
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"All things can corrupt when minds are prone to evil."
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"An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand."
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"An evil life is a kind of death."
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"At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time."
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"Beauty is a fragile gift."
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"By faithful study of the nobler arts, our nature's softened, and more gentle grows."
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"Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish."
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"Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish."
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"Courage conquers all things."
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"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."
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"Dignity and love do not blend well, nor do they continue long together."
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"Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality."
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"Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by."
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"Either do not attempt at all, or go through with it."
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"Every lover is a soldier."
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"Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish."
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"Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour."
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"First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, 'I believe,' three times."
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"Give way to your opponent; thus will you gain the crown of victory."
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"Habits change into character."
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"He who can believe himself well, will be well."
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"He who says o'er much I love not is in love."
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"He whom all hate all wish to see destroyed."
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"He who would not be idle, let him fall in love."
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"How little you know about the age you live in if you think that honey is sweeter than cash in hand."
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"How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man."
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"If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love."
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"If you would marry suitably, marry your equal."
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"In an easy matter. Anybody can be eloquent."
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"It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are."
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"It is the poor man who'll ever count his flock."
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"It is the mind that makes the man."
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"It's useful that there should be Gods, so let's believe there are."
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"Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers."
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"Judgement of beauty can err, what with the wine and the dark."
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"Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be fish."
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"Let what is irksome become habitual, no more will it trouble you."
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"Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these."
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"Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these"
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"Little things please little minds."
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"Love and dignity cannot share the same abode."
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"Love is full of anxious fears."
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"Love is a thing that is full of cares and fears."
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"Love is a kind of warfare."
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"Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish."
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"Majesty and love do not consort well together, nor do they dwell in the same place."
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"Love will enter cloaked in friendship's name."
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"Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them."
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"Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it."
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"Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward."
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"Most safely shall you tread the middle path."
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"My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope."
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"Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again."
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"Neglect of appearance becomes men."
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"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."
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"Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit."
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"Nothing in the entire universe ever perishes, believe me, but things vary, and adopt a new form. The phrase 'being born' is used for beginning to be something different from what one was before, while 'dying' means ceasing to be the same. Though this thing may pass into that, and that into this, yet the sums of things remains unchanged."
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"Nothing is stronger than habit."
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