Ovid quotes
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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.”
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“As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.”
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“The glow of inspiration warms us; it is a holy rapture.”
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“Stop short of your appetite; eat less than you are able.”
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“If you are not ready today, you will be even less so tomorrow.”
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“A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.”
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“Either do not attempt at all or go through with it.”
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“There is nothing constant in the universe. All ebb and flow, and every shape that's born, bears in its womb the seeds of change.”
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“Change is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.”
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“What makes men indifferent to their wives is that they can see them when they please.”
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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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“What is harder than rock, or softer than water? Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere.”
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“He, who is not prepared today, will be less so tomorrow.”
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“Well has he lived who has lived well in obscurity.”
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“The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.”
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“We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.”
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“There is no excellence uncoupled with difficulties.”
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“Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.”
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“I grabbed a pile of dust, and holding it up, foolishly asked for as many birthdays as the grains of dust, I forgot to ask that they be years of youth.”
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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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“Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength.”
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“Add little to little and there will be a big pile.”
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“Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.”
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“All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.”
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“Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.”
-- OvidSource : Ovid (2015). “The Art Of Love”, p.30, Ovid
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“Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.”
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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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“Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.”
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“Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.”
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“Happy is he who dares courageously to defend what he loves.”
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“Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.”
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“All love is vanquished by a succeeding love.”
-- OvidSource : Ovid, John Henry Mozley (1979). “Ovid”, Loeb Classical Library
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“The wild boar is often held by a small dog. [Lat., A cane non magno saepe tenetur aper.]”
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“Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts. [Lat., Candida pax homines, trux decet ira feras.]”
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“Let those who have deserved their punishment, bear it patiently. [Lat., Aequo animo poenam, qui meruere, ferant.]”
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“It is less to suffer punishment than to deserve it. [Lat., Estque pati poenas quam meruisse minus.]”
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“The whole earth is the brave man's country. [Lat., Omne solum forti patria est.]”
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“Our native land charms us with inexpressible sweetness, and never never allows us to forget that we belong to it. [Lat., Nescio qua natale solum dulcedine captos Ducit, et immemores non sinit esse sui.]”
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“The love of country is more powerful than reason itself.”
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“The mind alone can not be exiled. [Lat., Mens sola loco non exulat.]”
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“A mind conscious of right laughs at the falsehoods of rumour. [Lat., Conscia mens recti famae mendacia risit.]”
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“Time is a stream which glides smoothly on and is past before we know.”
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“Heavens! what thick darkness pervades the minds of men. [Lat., Pro superi! quantum mortalia pectora caecae, Noctis habent.]”
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“From high Meonia's rocky shores I came, Of poor decsent, Acoetes is my name, My sire was measly born: no oxen ploughed, His fruitful fields, nor in his pastures lowed, His whole estate within the waters lay' With lines and hooks he caught the finny prey; His art was all his livelehood, which he Thus with his dying lips bequeathed to me: In streams, my boy, and rivers take thy chance; There swims', said he, Thy whole inheritance.”
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“The mind, conscious of rectitude, laughed to scorn the falsehood of report.”
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