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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• When the roses are gone, nothing is left but the thorn.

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  Memories, Rose, Gone

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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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• Friendship is but a name; fidelity but an empty name.

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  Names, Empty, Losing Friendship

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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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• Love is no assignment for cowards.

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  Love, Relationship, Marriage

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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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• 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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• 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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• Anyone can be rich in promises.

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  Promise, Rich

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• Wind feeds the fire, and wind extinguishes:
  The flames are nourished by a gentle breeze,
  Yet, if it stronger grows, they sink and die.

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  Love, Fire, Flames

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• Stop short of your appetite; eat less than you are able.

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  Food, Able, Appetite

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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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• When the character's right, looks are a greater delight.

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  Character, Looks, Delight

  Ovid (1957). “The Loves: The Art of Beauty, The Remedies for Love, and The Art of Love”, p.100, Indiana University Press

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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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• 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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• What is without periods of rest will not endure.

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  Inspirational, Relaxation, Periods

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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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• 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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  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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• A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.

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  Leadership, Vision, Empowering Others

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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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• The vulgar crowd values friends according to their usefulness.

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  Crowds, Vulgar, Usefulness

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• The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.

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  Reality, Oil, Lamps

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