Ovid Quotes - Page 10

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• Bring a lawsuit against a man who can pay; the poor man's acts are not worth the expense

  Ovid

  Men, Pay, Poor

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• The rose is often found near the nettle.

  Ovid

  Rose, Found, Nettles

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• To dismiss a guest is a more ungracious act than not to admit him at all.

  Ovid

  Guests

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• I hate a woman who offers herself because she ought to do so, and cold and dry thinks of her sewing when making love.

  Ovid

  Hate, Thinking, Hypocrisy

  Ovid (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)”, p.328, Delphi Classics

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• The laws allow arms to be taken against an armed foe.

  Ovid

  Taken, Law, Arms

  Ovid, G. P. Goold (1985). “The art of love, and other poems”

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• A mind conscious of right laughs at the falsehoods of rumour.
  [Lat., Conscia mens recti famae mendacia risit.]

  Ovid

  Laughing, Mind, Conscious

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• I could not possibly count the gold-digging ruses of women, Not if I had ten mouths, not if I had ten tongues.

  Ovid

  Greed, Gold, Digging

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• The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.

  Ovid

  Flower, Rose, Ancestry

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• Those presents are the most acceptable which are enhanced by our regard for the donor.

  Ovid

  Donors, Regard, Acceptable

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• Chastity, once lost, cannot be recalled; it goes only once.

  Ovid

  Lost, Chastity

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• Those gifts are ever the most acceptable which the giver makes precious.
  [Lat., Acceptissima semper munera sunt auctor quae pretiosa facit.]

  Ovid

  Giver, Acceptable

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• The result justifies the deed.

  Ovid

  Deeds, Results, Justify

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• Riches, the incentives to evil, are dug out of the earth.

  Ovid

  Evil, Earth, Incentives

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• Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.

  Ovid

  Health, Medicine, Nurse

  Tristia

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• Our advantages fly away without aid. Pluck the flower.
  [Lat., Nostra sine auxilio fugiunt bona. Carpite florem.]

  Ovid

  Flower, Opportunity, Fly Away

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• Love is a naked child: do you think he has pockets for money?

  Ovid

  Love, Children, Thinking

  Ovid (1957). “The Loves: The Art of Beauty, The Remedies for Love, and The Art of Love”, p.31, Indiana University Press

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• Pursuits become habits.
  [Lat., Abeunt studia in mores.]

  Ovid

  Habit, Pursuit

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• If he did not succeed, he at least failed in a glorious undertaking.

  Ovid

  Success, Succeed, Glorious

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• Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.

  Ovid

  Punishment, Delay, Bitterness

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• A short absence is the safest.

  Ovid

  Safety, Absence

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• Everything changes, nothing is lost.

  Ovid

  Things Change, Lost

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• That which never has been, never is, and never will be.

  Ovid

  Has Beens

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• A safe pleasure is a tame pleasure.

  Ovid

  Safe, Pleasure

  Ovid (1932). “The Love Books of Ovid”, p.189, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

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• Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.

  Ovid

  Heart, My Heart, Affectionate

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• Let the poor man mind his tongue

  Ovid

  Men, Mind, Tongue

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