Ovid Quotes

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

  Ovid

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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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.

  Ovid

  Happiness, Happy, Hurt

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• Love is no assignment for cowards.

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  Love, Relationship, Marriage

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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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• The brave find a home in every land.

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  Home, Land, Bravery

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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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• If you are not ready today, you will be even less so tomorrow.

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  Procrastination, Today, Tomorrow

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

  Ovid

  Memories, Rose, Gone

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

  Ovid

  Hope

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• The purpose of law is to prevent the strong always having their way.

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  Strong, Law, Purpose

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• When you have set yourself a task finish it.

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  Tasks

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• Luck affects everything; let your hook always be cast.

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  Good Luck, Lucky Day, Hook

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• The result proves the wisdom of the act.

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  Results, Prove

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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.

  Ovid

  Change, Nature, Age

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• You will be melancholy, if you are solitary.

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  Melancholy, Solitary, Ifs

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• Men do not value a good deed
  unless it brings a reward.

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  Men, Deeds, Rewards

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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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• What is without periods of rest will not endure.

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  Inspirational, Relaxation, Periods

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

  Ovid

  Passion, Way, Reason

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

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• Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop

  Ovid

  Inspirational, Success, Wisdom

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• Fortune and love favor the brave.

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  Love, Inspiring, Depressing

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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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• The vulgar crowd values friends according to their usefulness.

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  Crowds, Vulgar, Usefulness

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