Ovid Quotes - Page 12

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• How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

  Ovid

  Children, Men, Promise

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• There is no small pleasure in pure water.

  Ovid

  Water, Small Pleasures, Pure

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• There is a deity within us who breathes that divine fire by which we are animated.

  Ovid

  Motivational, Spiritual, Fire

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• Isn't the best defense always a good attack?

  Ovid

  Wisdom, Peace, War

  Ovid (1957). “The Loves: The Art of Beauty, The Remedies for Love, and The Art of Love”, p.28, Indiana University Press

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• Excessive love in loathing ever ends.

  Ovid

  Love, Loathing, Ends

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• Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.

  Ovid

  Friendship, Men, Long

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• Temporis ars medicina fere est.
  Time is generally the best medicine.

  Ovid

  Time, Medicine

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• Tis base to plead the unhappy prisoner's cause,
  With eloquence that's bought.

  Ovid

  Unhappy, Causes, Prisoner

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• He whom all hate all wish to see destroyed.

  Ovid

  Hate, Wish, Destroyed

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• Man looks aloft, and with erected eyes Beholds his hereditary skies.

  Ovid

  Eye, Men, Sky

  Ovid, “Metamorphoses: Book The First”

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• You do not know it but you are the talk of all the town.
  [Lat., Fabula (nec sentis) tota jactaris in urba.]

  Ovid

  Gossip, Towns, Knows

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• Love is a thing full of anxious fears.

  Ovid

  Life, Love Is, Anxious

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• The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal.

  Ovid

  May, Crime, Penalties

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• Neglect of appearance becomes men.

  Ovid

  Men, Appearance, Neglect

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• Although they posses enough, and more than enough still they yearn for more.

  Ovid

  Wealth, Enough, Posse

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• Tempus edax rerum. Time the devourer of everything.

  Ovid

  Time

  Metamorphoses bk. 15, l. 234

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• Judgement of beauty can err, what with the wine and the dark.

  Ovid

  Beauty, Wine, Dark

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• Love that is fed by jealousy dies hard.

  Ovid

  Life, Jealousy, Envy

  Ovid (1932). “The Love Books of Ovid”, p.216, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

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• An evil life is a kind of death.

  Ovid

  Life, Death, Evil

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• Things which of themselves avail nothing, when united become powerful.

  Ovid

  Powerful, United

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• In an easy matter. Anybody can be eloquent.

  Ovid

  Matter, Easy, Conversation

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• To have properly studied the liberal sciences gives a polish to our manners, and removes all awkwardness.

  Ovid

  Giving, Manners, Polish

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• Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned.

  Ovid

  Keeping Promises, Broken Promises, Kept Promises

  Ovid (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)”, p.304, Delphi Classics

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• Fools laugh at the Latin language. -Rident stolidi verba Latina

  Ovid

  Laughter, Latin, Laughing

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• We two [Deucalion and Pyrrha, after the deluge] form a multitude.
  [Lat., Nos duo turba sumus.]

  Ovid

  Future, Two, Duos

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