Ovid Quotes - Page 18

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• Ah me! love can not be cured by herbs.

  Ovid

  Love, Life, Valentines Day

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

  Ovid

  Country, Powerful, Patriotism

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• Good hope is often beguiled by her own augury.

  Ovid

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• It is not easy to bear prosperity unruffled.

  Ovid

  Bears, Prosperity, Easy

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• No thanks attach to a kindness long deferred.

  Ovid

  Kindness, Long, Thanks

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• The battle is over when the foe has fallen.

  Ovid

  Battle, Fallen, Foe

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

  Ovid

  Blow, Suffering, Proximity

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

  Ovid

  Honesty, Adversity, Evil

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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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• Though strength be wanting, the will to action
  Merits praise.

  Ovid

  Merit, Action, Praise

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• You will be safest in the middle.

  Ovid

  Middle

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• That, which has not its alternation of rest, will not last long.

  Ovid

  Long, Lasts

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• In time the bull is brought to wear the yoke.
  [Lat., Tempore ruricolae patiens fit taurus aratri.]

  Ovid

  Education, Yoke, Bulls

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• Time spent in the cultivation of the fields passes very pleasantly.

  Ovid

  Agriculture, Fields, Cultivation

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• My intention is to tell of bodies changed into new forms.

  Ovid

  Change, Body, Intention

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• Where crime is taught from early years, it becomes a part of nature.

  Ovid

  Years, Taught, Prison

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• Good-bye to the lies of the poets.
  [Lat., Valeant mendacia vatum.]

  Ovid

  Lying, Bye, Good Bye

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• Today is truly the Golden Age: gold buys hornor, gold procures love

  Ovid

  Age, Gold, Today

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• The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.

  Ovid

  Envy, Fields, Crops

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• Love is a believing creature.

  Ovid

  Love, Believe, Heart

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• A man is sorry to be honest for nothing.

  Ovid

  Sorry, Honesty, Men

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• Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

  Ovid

  Silence, Causes, Silent

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• Against the bold, daring is unsafe.

  Ovid

  Daring, Unsafe

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• Our native soil draws all of us, by I know not what sweetness, and never allows us to forget.

  Ovid

  Soil, Forget, Homesickness

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