Ovid Quotes - Page 15

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• If you want to be loved, be loveable.

  Ovid

  Want, Ifs

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• Not for any one man's delight has Nature made
  the sun, the wind, the waters; all are free.

  Ovid

  Nature, Men, Wind

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• Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.

  Ovid

  Courage, Drinking, Passion

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• If you give up your quiet life, the bow of Cupid will lose its power.

  Ovid

  Life, Giving Up, Bows

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• Concealed sorrow bursts the heart, and rages within us as an internal fire.

  Ovid

  Heart, Fire, Sorrow

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• Where belief is painful we are slow to believe.

  Ovid

  Pain, Believe, Belief

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• Time, motion and wine cause sleep.

  Ovid

  Wine, Sleep, Insomnia

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• Ah me! how easy it is (how much all have experienced it) to indulge in brave words in another person's trouble.
  [Lat., Hei mihi, quam facile est (quamvis hic contigit omnes),
  Alterius lucta fortia verba loqui!]

  Ovid

  Indulge In, Brave, Trouble

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• Forbear to lay the guilt of a few on the many.

  Ovid

  Guilt, Lays

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• When the heart is sick it cannot bear the slightest annoyance.

  Ovid

  Heart, Sick, Bears

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• Leave war to others; 'tis Protesilaus' part of love.

  Ovid

  Love, War

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• I would that you were either less beautiful, or less corrupt. Such perfect beauty does not suit such imperfect morals.
  [Lat., Aut formosa fores minus, aut minus improba vellem.
  Non facit ad mores tam bona forma malos.]

  Ovid

  Beauty, Beautiful, Perfect

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• Sickness seizes the body from bad ventilation.

  Ovid

  Body, Disease, Sickness

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• All things can corrupt perverse minds.

  Ovid

  Mind, Corruption, All Things

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• Love is too prone to trust. Would I could think
  My charges false and all too rashly made.

  Ovid

  Love, Trust, Thinking

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• Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

  Ovid

  Heart, Feelings, Details

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• Most safely shall you tread the middle path.

  Ovid

  Middle Path, Path, Moderation

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• That you may please others you must be forgetful of yourself.

  Ovid

  People, May, Forgetful

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• There is a God within us and intercourse with heaven.
  [Lat., Est deus in nobis; et sunt commercia coeli.]

  Ovid

  God, Heaven, Intercourse

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• Money nowadays is money; money brings office; money gains friends; everywhere the poor man is down.
  [Lat., In pretio pretium nunc est; dat census honores,
  Census amicitias; pauper ubique jacet.]

  Ovid

  Money, Men, Office

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• The pleasure that is granted to me from a sense of duty ceases to be a pleasure at all.

  Ovid

  Granted, Pleasure, Duty

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

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• Every lover is a soldier. (Love is a warfare.)
  [Lat., Militat omnis amans.]

  Ovid

  Love, Soldier, Warfare

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• You who seek an end of love, love yields to business: be busy, and you will be safe.

  Ovid

  Love, Business, Yield

  'Remedia Amoris' l. 143

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• We are all bound thither; we are hastening to the same common goal. Black death calls all things under the sway of its laws.
  [Lat., Tendimus huc omnes; metam properamus ad unam. Omnia sub leges mors vocat atra suas.]

  Ovid

  Death, Law, Goal

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• It is prudence that first forsakes the wretched.

  Ovid

  Firsts, Prudence, Wretched

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