Ovid Quotes

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• Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.

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  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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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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  Motivational, Running, Horse

  Ovid (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)”, p.343, Delphi Classics

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• Love is no assignment for cowards.

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  Love, Relationship, Marriage

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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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  Happiness, Happy, Hurt

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• Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.

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  Change, Life Changing, Persistence

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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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  Destiny, Ebb And Flow, Shapes

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• My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.
  [Lat., Et res non semper, spes mihi semper adest.]

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  Hope

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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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  Change, Nature, Age

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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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  Inspirational, Wisdom, Integrity

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• Beauty is a fragile gift.

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  Beauty, Fragile

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• Passion persuades me one way, reason another. I see the better and approve it, but I follow the worse.

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  Passion, Way, Reason

  Ovid (1994). “Metamorphoses: books I-VIII”

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• Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.

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  Eye, Sight, Soul

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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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  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• Fortune and love favor the brave.

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  Love, Inspiring, Depressing

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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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  Stars, Eye, Men

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  Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.

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  Inspirational, Meditation, Genius

  Ovid (2015). “The Art Of Love”, p.30, Ovid

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• The glow of inspiration warms us; it is a holy rapture.

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  Life, Inspiration, Holy

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• Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.

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  Patience, Be Patient, Hours

  Ovid (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)”, p.305, Delphi Classics

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• The vulgar crowd values friends according to their usefulness.

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  Crowds, Vulgar, Usefulness

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• Nothing is stronger than habit.

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  Inspirational, Humor, Deep Thought

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• Work while your strength and years permit you; crooked age will by-and-by come upon you with silent foot.

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  Years, Feet, Age

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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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  Desire, Different, Way

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• Whilst you are prosperous you can number many friends; but when the storm comes you are left alone.

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  Numbers, Storm, Prosperity

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• Love is a thing that is full of cares and fears.

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  Short Love, Love Is, Care

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• Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.

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  Perseverance, Pain, Endure

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