Ovid Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.”
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“A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.”
-- OvidSource : Ovid (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)”, p.343, Delphi Classics
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“Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.”
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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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“I am dragged along by a strange new force. Desire and reason are pulling in different directions. I see the right way and approve it, but follow the wrong.”
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“Let the man who does not wish to be idle, fall in love.”
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“Thus I am not able to exist either with you or without you; and I seem not to know my own wishes.”
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“Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop”
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“I flee who chases me and chase who flees me.”
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“Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.”
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“Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.”
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“I am the poet of the poor, because I was poor when I loved; since I could not give gifts, I gave words.”
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“All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.”
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“There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.”
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“Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.”
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“We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.”
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“Envy feeds on the living, after death it rests, then the honor of a man protects him.”
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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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“When there is plenty of wine, sorrow and worry take wing.”
-- Ovid
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