Ovid Quotes - Page 22

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• Who gives to Aristaeus honey;
  Or wine to Bacchus, or Triptolemus
  Earth's fruits, or apples to Alcinous?

  Ovid

  Wine, Apples, Giving

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• Tempus edax rerum.
  Time that devours all things.

  Ovid

  Time, All Things

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• Face troubles from their birth, for 'tis too late to cure
  When long delay has given the evil strength.
  Haste then; postpone not to the coming hour: tomorrow
  He'll be less ready who's not ready now.

  Ovid

  Long, Evil, Haste

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• Time itself flows on with constant motion, just like a river: for no more than a river can the fleeting hour stand still. As wave is driven on by wave, and, itself pursued, pursues the one before, so the moments of time at once flee and follow, and are ever new.

  Ovid

  Rivers, Fleeting, Flow

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• I attempt an arduous task but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement

  Ovid

  Accomplishment, Goal, Achievement

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• An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

  Ovid

  Fear, Medicine, Understanding

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• The least strength suffices to break what is bruised.

  Ovid

  Strength, Break, Bruised

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• What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps with it alone, she lives.

  Ovid

  Sleep, Doe

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• Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts.
  [Lat., Candida pax homines, trux decet ira feras.]

  Ovid

  Peace, Men, Ira

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• And I will capture your minds with sweet novelty.
  [Lat., Dulcique animos novitate tenebo.]

  Ovid

  Sweet, Mind, Novelty

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• As long as you are lucky, you will have many friends; if cloudy times appear, you will be alone. -Donec eris felix, multos numerabis amicos; tempora si fuerint nubila, solus eris

  Ovid

  Friendship, Long, Lucky

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• If thou wishest to put an end to love, attend to business (love yields to employment); then thou wilt be safe.
  [Lat., Qui finem quaeris amoris,
  (Cedit amor rebus) res age; tutus eris.]

  Ovid

  Love, Yield, Age

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• Take this at least, this last advice, my son:
  Keep a stiff rein, and move but gently on:
  The coursers of themselves will run too fast,
  Your art must be to moderate their haste.

  Ovid

  Running, Art, Moving

  Ovid (1998). “Metamorphoses”, p.41, Wordsworth Editions

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• Let those who have deserved their punishment, bear it patiently.
  [Lat., Aequo animo poenam, qui meruere, ferant.]

  Ovid

  Punishment, Bears

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• Thou beginnest better than thou endest.
  The last is inferior to the first.
  [Lat., Coepisti melius quam desinis. Ultima primis cedunt.]

  Ovid

  Ultima, Lasts, Firsts

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• Love is born of idleness and, once born, by idleness is fostered.

  Ovid

  Love Is, Born, Idleness

  Ovid (1932). “The Love Books of Ovid”, p.203, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

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• There are a thousand forms of evil; there will be a thousand remedies.

  Ovid

  Evil, Form, Thousand

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• Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

  Ovid

  Marriage, Society, Dowry

  Ovid (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)”, p.316, Delphi Classics

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• If Jupiter hurled his thunderbolt as often as men sinned, he would soon be out of thunderbolts.

  Ovid

  Men, Jupiter, Sin

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• By arts, sails, and oars, ships are rapidly moved; arts move the
  light chariot, and establish love.
  [Lat., Arte citae veloque rates remoque moventur;
  Arte levis currus, arte regendus Amor.]

  Ovid

  Art, Moving, Light

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• Indulgent gods, grant me to sin once with impunity. That is sufficient. Let a second offence bear its punishment.

  Ovid

  Punishment, Bears, Sin

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• A broken fortune is like a falling column; the lower it sinks, the greater weight it has to sustain.

  Ovid

  Fall, Broken, Weight

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• The most wretched fortune is safe; for there is no fear of anything worse.
  [Lat., Fortuna miserrima tuta est:
  Nam timor eventus deterioris abest.]

  Ovid

  Safe, No Fear, Fortune

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• The love of fame usually spurs on the mind.
  [Lat., Ingenio stimulos subdere fama solet.]

  Ovid

  Mind, Spurs, Fame

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• The mind conscious of innocence despises false reports: but we are a set always ready to believe a scandal.

  Ovid

  Believe, Mind, Scandal

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