Ovid Quotes - Page 21

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• The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late.

  Ovid

  Time, Past, Thinking

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• Remove but the temptations of leisure, and the bow of Cupid will lose its effect.

  Ovid

  Temptation, Bows, Leisure

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• It is hope which makes the shipwrecked sailor strike out with his arms in the midst of the sea, though no land is in sight.

  Ovid

  Sight, Sea, Land

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• Ere land and sea and the all-covering sky Were made, in the whole world the countenance Of nature was the same, all one, well named Chaos, a raw and undivided mass, Naught but a lifeless bulk, with warring seeds Of ill-joined elements compressed together.

  Ovid

  Nature, Science, Sea

  Ovid,, A. D. Melville, E. J. Kenney (2008). “Metamorphoses”, p.1, Oxford University Press

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• Opportunity is ever worth expecting; let your hood be ever hanging ready. The fish will be in the pool where you least imagine it to be.

  Ovid

  Opportunity, Pool, Imagine

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• The hunter follows things which flee from him; he leaves them when they are taken; and ever seeks for that which is beyond what he has found.
  [Lat., Venator sequitur fugientia; capta relinquit;
  Semper et inventis ulteriora petit.]

  Ovid

  Taken, Future, Hunters

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• Out of many things a great heap will be formed.
  [Lat., De multis grandis acervus erit.]

  Ovid

  Trifles

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• Fortune and love favour the brave.
  [Lat., Audentem Forsque Venusque juvant.]

  Ovid

  Bravery, And Love, Favour

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• The sea's vast depths lie open to the fish;
  Wherever the breezes blow the bird may fly;
  So to the brave man every land's a home.

  Ovid

  Lying, Home, Blow

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• Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.

  Ovid

  Time, Years, Reign

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• Happy the man who ventures boldly to defend what he holds dear.

  Ovid

  Courage, Men, Venture

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• I cannot keep track of all the vagaries of fashion, Every day, so it seems, brings in a different style.

  Ovid

  Fashion, Track, Style

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• Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

  Ovid

  Time, Words Of Wisdom, Return

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• Rare is the virtue that's not ruled by Fortune,
  That stands unshaken even when Fortune flees.

  Ovid

  Virtue, Fortune

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• The applause and the favour of our fellow-men
  Fan even a spark of genius to a flame.

  Ovid

  Appreciation, Men, Flames

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• We praise times past, while we times present use;
  Yet due the worship which to each we give.

  Ovid

  Past, Giving, Use

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• When all the other animals, downcast looked upon the earth, he [Prometheus] gave a face raised on high to man, and commanded him to see the sky and raise his high eyes to the stars.

  Ovid

  Stars, Eye, Animal

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• Grant me profits only, grant me the joy of profit made,
  and see to it that I enjoy cheating the buyer!

  Ovid

  Cheating, Joy, Made

  Ovid (1929). “Fastorum libri sex: the Fasti of Ovid”

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• There is no pleasure pure and simple, and some care always
  comes to mar our joys.

  Ovid

  Simple, Joy, Mars

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• The art of medicine in the season lies:
  Wine given in season oft will benefit,
  Which out of season injures.

  Ovid

  Art, Lying, Healing

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• What is harder than stone?
  What more soft than water?
  Nevertheless hard though the rock be, it is hollowed by the wave.

  Ovid

  Rocks, Water, Stones

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• What is now an act of reason, was but blind impulse.

  Ovid

  Blind, Reason, Impulse

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• By constant dripping, water hollows stone,
  A signet-ring from use alone grows thin,
  And the curved plowshare by soft earth is worn.

  Ovid

  Practice, Water, Use

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• There is no need of words; believe facts.
  [Lat., Non opus est verbis, credite rebus.]

  Ovid

  Believe, Needs, Facts

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• In an easy cause anyone can be eloquent; the slightest strength is enough to break what is already shattered.

  Ovid

  Causes, Easy, Enough

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