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A thousand ills require a thousand cures.

Ovid

Cures, Thousand

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

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everything changes, nothing perishes

Ovid

Change, Things Change

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If it were in my power, I would be wiser; but a newly felt power carries me off in spite of myself; love leads me one way, my understanding another.

Ovid

Self Love, Understanding, Way

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Love is the force that leaves you colorless

Ovid

Love Is, Force, Colorless

Ovid (2005). “Metamorphoses: A New Translation”, p.131, W. W. Norton & Company

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Though the power be wanting, yet the wish is praiseworthy.

Ovid

Power, Wish, Praiseworthy

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Only begin, and you will become eloquent of yourself.

Ovid

Speech, Eloquent

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From high Meonia's rocky shores I came, Of poor decsent, Acoetes is my name, My sire was measly born: no oxen ploughed, His fruitful fields, nor in his pastures lowed, His whole estate within the waters lay' With lines and hooks he caught the finny prey; His art was all his livelehood, which he Thus with his dying lips bequeathed to me: In streams, my boy, and rivers take thy chance; There swims', said he, Thy whole inheritance.

Ovid

Art, Boys, Sea

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The wit of man has devised cruel statutes,
And nature oft permits what is by law forbid.

Ovid

Men, Law, Permit

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These are the evils which result from gossiping habits.

Ovid

Evil, Habit, Results

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Thy destiny is only that of man, but thy aspirations may be those of a god.

Ovid

Destiny, Men, May

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A light breath fans the flame, a violent gust extinguishes it.

Ovid

Light, Flames, Fans

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If Jupiter should hurl a bolt whenever men sin,
His armory would quickly be empty.

Ovid

Men, Jupiter, Sin

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All things human hang by a slender thread; and that which seemed to stand strong suddenly falls and sinks in ruins.

Ovid

Strong, Fall, Ruins

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Little things please little minds.

Ovid

Mind, Littles, Little Things

Ovid, Stanley Appelbaum (2010). “The Art of Love”, p.9, Courier Corporation

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We can learn even from our enemies.

Ovid

Enemy

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A wound will perhaps become tolerable with length of time; but wounds which are raw shudder at the touch of the hands.

Ovid

Hands, Length, Tolerable

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Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery.

Ovid

Lying, Differences, Knavery

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We do not bear sweets; we are recruited by a bitter potion.

Ovid

Sweet, Medicine, Bears

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There is a god within us, and the heavens
Have intercourse with earth; from realms above
That spirit comes.

Ovid

God, Heaven, Earth

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As many as the shells that are on the shore, so many are
the pains of love; the darts that wound are steeped in
much poison.

Ovid

Love, Pain, Poison

Ovid, John Henry Mozley (1979). “Ovid”, Loeb Classical Library

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The man who falls in love chill find plenty of occupation.

Ovid

Falling In Love, Men, Occupation

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The workmanship was better than the subject matter.

Ovid

Latin, Matter, Workmanship

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Envy depreciates the genius of the great Homer.

Ovid

Envy, Genius, Depreciate

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Wherever I look there is nothing but the image of death.

Ovid

Death, Looks

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Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.

Ovid

Jupiter, Lovers, Perjury

Ovid (1852). “The Heroides: Or Epistles of the Heroines, The Amours, Art of Love, Remedy of Love and Minor Works of Ovid”, p.403

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Born: March 20, 43 BC
Died: 1 BC
Occupation: Poet
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