Ovid Quotes - Page 17

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• A pious fraud.
  [Lat., Pia fraus.]

  Ovid

  Deceit, Fraud, Pious

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• The wounded limb shrinks from the slightest touch; and a slight shadow alarms the nervous.
  [Lat., Membra reformidant mollem quoque saucia tactum:
  Vanaque sollicitis incutit umbra metum.]

  Ovid

  Fear, Shadow, Alarms

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• Majesty and love do not well agree, nor do they live together.

  Ovid

  Life, Together, And Love

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• He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.

  Ovid

  Falling In Love, Fall, Indolence

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• Tempore difficiles veniunt ad aratra juvenci;
  Tempore lenta pati frena docentur equi.
  In time the unmanageable young oxen come to the plough; in time the horses are taught to endure the restraining bit.

  Ovid

  Time, Horse, Oxen

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• Every delay that postpones our joys, is long.
  [Lat., Longa mora est nobis omnis, quae gaudia differt.]

  Ovid

  Long, Joy, Delay

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• No man provokes me with impunity.

  Ovid

  Men, Provoking, Impunity

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• Honesty, by evil fortune tried,
  Finds in adversity the seed of praise.

  Ovid

  Honesty, Adversity, Evil

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• It is some relief to weep; grief is satisfied and carried off by tears.

  Ovid

  Broken Heart, Breakup, Grief

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• A boar is often held by a not-so-large dog.

  Ovid

  Dog, Boars

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• When disposition wins us, the features please.

  Ovid

  Winning, Appearance, Disposition

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• O ye gods! what thick encircling darkness blinds the minds of men!

  Ovid

  Men, Darkness, Mind

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• Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.

  Ovid

  Blame, Prison, Multitudes

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• There are as many characters in men
  As there are shapes in nature.

  Ovid

  Character, Men, Shapes

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• Good hope is often beguiled by her own augury.

  Ovid

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• We suffer by our proximity. [Who get a blow intended for another.]

  Ovid

  Blow, Suffering, Proximity

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• No thanks attach to a kindness long deferred.

  Ovid

  Kindness, Long, Thanks

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• Daring is not safe against daring men.

  Ovid

  Men, Risk, Safe

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• It is not easy to bear prosperity unruffled.

  Ovid

  Bears, Prosperity, Easy

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• I see and approve better things, but follow worse.

  Ovid

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• The love of country is more powerful than reason itself.

  Ovid

  Country, Powerful, Patriotism

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• The battle is over when the foe has fallen.

  Ovid

  Battle, Fallen, Foe

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• The love of fame puts spurs to the mind

  Ovid

  Mind, Spurs, Fame

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• Time is the devourer of all things.

  Ovid

  Time, Time Management, All Things

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• This victory will be your I ruin.

  Ovid

  Victory, Ruins

  Ovid (2013). “Fasti”, p.137, OUP Oxford

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