Ovid Quotes
Quotations and aphorisms by Ovid:
Against the bold, daring is unsafe.
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First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, 'I believe,' three times.
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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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Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.
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Often they benefit who suffer wrong.
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There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.
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Take rest; a field that has rested gives a beautiful crop.
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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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Time is generally the best doctor.
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Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.
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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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The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late.
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If you want to be loved, be lovable.
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Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.
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Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned.
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Let what is irksome become habitual, no more will it trouble you.
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Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.
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My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.
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Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves.
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Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships; the poor man everywhere lies low.
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How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.
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Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.
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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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Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.
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What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless.
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The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.
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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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Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.
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Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.
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He whom all hate all wish to see destroyed.
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Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.
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Ah me! Love can not be cured by herbs.
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Art lies by its own artifice.
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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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Daring is not safe against daring men.
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Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.
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The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.
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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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Give way to your opponent; thus will you gain the crown of victory.
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A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.
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Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.
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Time, motion and wine cause sleep.
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Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.
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What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.
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Love is full of anxious fears.
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To feel our ills is one thing, but to cure them is another.
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First appearance deceives many.
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All things can corrupt when minds are prone to evil.
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Venus favors the bold.
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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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Love is a thing that is full of cares and fears.
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In an easy matter. Anybody can be eloquent.
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He who can believe himself well, will be well.
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The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.
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We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.
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Neglect of appearance becomes men.
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Time, the devourer of all things.
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The gods behold all righteous actions.
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Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength.
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Alas! how difficult it is not to betray one's guilt by one's looks.
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Envy aims very high.
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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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It is the poor man who'll ever count his flock.
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Most safely shall you tread the middle path.
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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
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There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
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You will go most safely in the middle.
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Fortune and love favor the brave.
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In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are.
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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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An evil life is a kind of death.
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The burden which is well borne becomes light.
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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.
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Little things please little minds.
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Tears at times have the weight of speech.
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Make the workmanship surpass the materials.
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The bold adventurer succeeds the best.
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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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Habits change into character.
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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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Use the occasion, for it passes swiftly.
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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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What is without periods of rest will not endure.
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Beauty is a fragile gift.
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The vulgar crowd values friends according to their usefulness.
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He who says o'er much I love not is in love.
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If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.
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What makes men indifferent to their wives is that they can see them when they please.
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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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A man is sorry to be honest for nothing.
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The cause is hidden; the effect is visible to all.
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Where belief is painful we are slow to believe.
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What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps; with it alone, she lives.
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Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts.
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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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Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.
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Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.
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All love is vanquished by a succeeding love.
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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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It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.
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Time is the devourer of all things.
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He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.
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The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.
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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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Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.
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People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.
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Love is a kind of warfare.
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Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.
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There is a god within us.
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Bear patiently with a rival.
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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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Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.
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Love is a credulous thing.
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Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.
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Every lover is a soldier.
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You can learn from anyone even your enemy.
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Either do not attempt at all, or go through with it.
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Majesty and love do not consort well together, nor do they dwell in the same place.
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The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool.
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Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.
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The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal.
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The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.
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