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Ovid Quotes
Best Quotes by Ovid (Top 10)
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Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.
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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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Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.
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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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Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.
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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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We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.
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Nothing is stronger than habit.
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Love will enter cloaked in friendship's name.
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My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.
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More Ovid Quotes
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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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If you want to be loved, be lovable.
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God himself helps those who dare.
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Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.
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In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are.
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I flee who chases me and chase who flees me.
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Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop
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All things change, nothing perishes.
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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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Fortune and love favor the brave.
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The cause is hidden; the effect is visible to all.
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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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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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All other creatures look down toward the earth, but man was given a face so that might turn his eyes toward the stars and his gaze upon the sky.
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Habits change into character.
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Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.
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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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Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength.
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A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.
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First appearance deceives many.
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The vulgar crowd values friends according to their usefulness.
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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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The burden becomes light that is shared by love.
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You will be melancholy, if you are solitary.
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It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.
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Love is a kind of warfare.
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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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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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The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.
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Time, the devourer of all things.
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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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Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be fish.
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There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
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The glow of inspiration warms us; it is a holy rapture.
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Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.
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Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.
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To be loved, be lovable. -Ovid.
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Burdens become light when cheerfully borne.
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Either do not attempt at all or go through with it.
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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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By faithful study of the nobler arts, our nature's softened, and more gentle grows.
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A woman is always buying something.
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What is allowed us is disagreeable, what is denied us causes us intense desire.
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Tears at times have the weight of speech.
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Courage conquers all things.
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What one beholds of a woman is the least part of her.
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Judgement of beauty can err, what with the wine and the dark.
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Whether they yield or refuse, it delights women to have been asked.
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Delay is a great procuress
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Gifts, believe me, captivate both men and Gods, Jupiter himself was won over and appeased by gifts.
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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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Forbear to lay the guilt of a few on the many.
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In an easy matter. Anybody can be eloquent.
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Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.
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Time is generally the best doctor.
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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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