Ovid Quotes - Page 23

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• The need has gone; the memorial thereof remains.

  Ovid

  Memorial, Needs, Gone

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• Every man should stay within his own fortune.
  [Lat., Intera fortunam quisque debet manere suam.]

  Ovid

  Men, Should, Fortune

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• The rest of the crowd were friends of my fortune, not of me.
  [Lat., Caetera fortunae, non mea, turba fuit.]

  Ovid

  Friends, Crowds, Fortune

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• Safety lies in the middle course.
  [Lat., Medio tutissimus ibis.]

  Ovid

  Lying, Safety, Moderation

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• Time was when genius was more precious than gold, but
  now to have nothing is monstrous barbarism.

  Ovid

  Gold, Genius, Wealth

  Ovid (1986). “Heroides ; and, Amores”

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• A pleasing countenance is no slight disadvantage.
  [Lat., Auxilium non leve vultus habet.]

  Ovid

  Beauty, Disadvantages, Countenance

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• We beg one hour of death, that neither she
  With widow's tears may live to bury me,
  Nor weeping I, with wither'd arms, may bear
  My breathless Baucis to the sepulchre.

  Ovid

  Death, Tears, Widows

  Ovid (1836). “Ovid”, p.259

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• You will hardly conquer, but conquer you must.
  [Lat., Male vincetis, sed vincite.]

  Ovid

  Males, Conquer, Conquest

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• What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

  Ovid

  Intuition, Reason, Instinct

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• Struggling over my fickle heart, love draws it now this
  way, and now hate that--but love, I think, is winning. I
  will hate, if I have strength; if not, I shall love unwilling.

  Ovid

  Love, Hate, Struggle

  Ovid (1977). “Heroides and Amores”, Heinemann Young Books

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• Beauty is a frail good.

  Ovid

  Beauty, Frail

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• With wavering steps does fickle fortune stray,
  Nowhere she finds a firm and fixed abode;
  But now all smiles, and now again all frowns,
  She's constant only in inconstancy.

  Ovid

  Doe, Fickle, Wavering

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• With patience bear what pains you have deserved,
  Grieve, if you will, over what's unmerited.

  Ovid

  Pain, Grieving, Punishment

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• All-devouring time, envious age,
  Nought can escape you, and by slow degrees,
  Worn by your teeth, all things will lingering die.

  Ovid

  Time, Age, Degrees

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

  Ovid

  Adversity, Valor, Hector

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• Some people think that because they do the opposite of what they are asked to do, they have initiative

  Ovid

  Thinking, Opposites, People

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

  Ovid

  Water, Stones, Dropping

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• Wine stimulates the mind and makes it quick with heat; care flees and is dissolved in much drink.

  Ovid

  Wine, Mind, Care

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• The gods behold all righteous actions.

  Ovid

  Action, Righteous

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

  Ovid

  Ancestry, Birth

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• See that you promise: what harm is there in promise? In
  promises anyone can be rich.

  Ovid

  Promise, Rich, Harm

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

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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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• Let others seek safety. Nothing is safer than misfortune,
  Where there's no fear of greater ill to come.

  Ovid

  Safety, No Fear, Ill

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• When worse may yet befall, there's room for prayer,
  But when our fortune's at its lowest ebb,
  We trample fear beneath our feet, and live
  Without a fear of evil yet to come.

  Ovid

  Prayer, Future, Feet

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