Ovid Quotes - Page 22

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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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• Tempus edax rerum.
  Time that devours all things.

  Ovid

  Time, All Things

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• Gifts, believe me, captivate both men and Gods, Jupiter himself was won over and appeased by gifts.

  Ovid

  Christmas, God, Life And Love

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• People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.

  Ovid

  Confidence, People, Claims

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• What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

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  Intuition, Reason, Instinct

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• It warms the blood, adds luster to the eyes, and wine and love have ever been allies.

  Ovid

  Wine, Eye, Blood

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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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• Giving calls for genius.

  Ovid

  Giving, Genius

  Ovid, Grant Showerman (1977). “Heroides ; Amores”, Heinemann Young Books

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• Fortune resists half-hearted prayers.

  Ovid

  Prayer, Half, Fortune

  Ovid (1994). “Metamorphoses: books I-VIII”

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• Eurydice, dying now a second time, uttered no complaint against her husband. What was there to complain of, but that she had been loved?

  Ovid

  Husband, Dying, Complaining

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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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• 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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• Every lover is a soldier.

  Ovid

  Alaska, Soldier, Lovers

  Ovid (1997). “Ovid's Metamorphoses”, p.280, University of Oklahoma Press

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

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  Fear, Medicine, Understanding

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• The gods behold all righteous actions.

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  Action, Righteous

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• Who would have known of Hector, if Troy had been happy? The road to valor is built by adversity.

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  Adversity, Valor, Hector

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• Birth and ancestry, and that which we have not ourselves achieved, we can scarcely call our own.

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  Ancestry, Birth

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

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  Believe, Mind, Scandal

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

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  Men, Jupiter, Sin

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

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  Punishment, Bears, Sin

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• The least strength suffices to break what is bruised.

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  Strength, Break, Bruised

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• Stones are hollowed out by the constant dropping of water.

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  Water, Stones, Dropping

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