Ovid Quotes - Page 25

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• In an easy cause any man may be eloquent.

  Ovid

  Men, May, Causes

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• I am above being injured by fortune, though she steals away much, more will remain with me. The blessing I now enjoy transcend fear.

  Ovid

  Fear, Blessing, Stealing

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• Grief is put to flight and assuaged by generous draughts.

  Ovid

  Grief, Flight, Draught

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• It is some alleviation to ills we cannot cure to speak of them.

  Ovid

  Speak, Cures

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• Anything cracked will shatter at a touch.

  Ovid

  Cracked

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• Writings survive the years; it is by writings that you know Agamemnon, and those who fought for or against him.
  [Lat., Scripta ferunt annos; scriptis Agamemnona nosti,
  Et quisquis contra vel simul arma tulit.]

  Ovid

  Writing, Years, Agamemnon

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• Women's words are as light as the doomed leaves whirling in autumn, Easily swept by the wind, easily drowned by the wave.

  Ovid

  Women, Autumn, Light

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• Dear to girls' hearts is their own beauty.

  Ovid

  Girl, Heart, Vanity

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• Sleep ... peace of the soul, who puttest care to flight.

  Ovid

  Sleep, Soul, Care

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• Love is a kind of warfare.

  Ovid

  Love, Break Up, Broken Heart

  Ovid (2015). “The Art Of Love”, p.36, Ovid

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• Fair Flora! Now attend thy sportful feast,
  Of which some days I with design have past;
  A part in April and a part in May
  Thou claim'st, and both command my tuneful lay;
  And as the confines of two months are thine
  To sing of both the double task be mine.

  Ovid

  Past, Two, Design

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• Death is not grievous to me, for I shall lay aside my pains by death.
  [Lat., Nec mihi mors gravis est posituro morte dolores.]

  Ovid

  Death, Pain, Lays

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• There is a good deal in a man's mode of eating.

  Ovid

  Men, Eating, Deals

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• A bitter drug oft brings relief.

  Ovid

  Drug, Relief, Bitter

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• Anger assists hands however weak.
  [Lat., Quamlibet infirmas adjuvat ira manus.]

  Ovid

  Anger, Hands, Ira

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• A soldier when aged is not appreciated; the love of an old man sickens.

  Ovid

  Men, Soldier, Appreciated

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• Envy, slothful vice,
  Never makes its way in lofty characters,
  But, like the skulking viper, creeps and crawls
  Close to the ground.

  Ovid

  Character, Envy, Vices

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• When a house is tottering to its fall,
  The strain lies heaviest on the weakest part,
  One tiny crack throughout the structure spreads,
  And its own weight soon brings it toppling down.

  Ovid

  Lying, Fall, House

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• Have consideration for wounded feelings.

  Ovid

  Feelings, Consideration, Wounded

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• We covet what is guarded; the very care invokes the thief. Few love what they may have.

  Ovid

  Thieves, Care, May

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• According to the state of a man's conscience, so do hope and fear on account of his deeds arise in his mind.

  Ovid

  Men, Mind, Deeds

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• Habit had made the custom.

  Ovid

  Habit, Made, Customs

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• Beauty, if you do not open your doors, takes age from lack of use.

  Ovid

  Beauty, Doors, Age

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• Anger assists hands however weak.

  Ovid

  Anger, Hands, Weak

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• Art lies in concealing art.

  Ovid

  Art, Lying, Concealing

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