Ovid Quotes - Page 27

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

  Ovid

  Grief, Flight, Draught

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• Have consideration for wounded feelings.

  Ovid

  Feelings, Consideration, Wounded

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• Imperceptibly the hours glide on, and beguile us as they pass.

  Ovid

  Hours

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• There is a certain kind of pleasure in weeping.

  Ovid

  Kind, Pleasure, Certain

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

  Ovid

  Men, Eating, Deals

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• Very slight violence will break that which has once been cracked.

  Ovid

  Violence, Break, Cracked

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• Even pleasure cloys without variety.

  Ovid

  Pleasure, Variety

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• In your judgment virtue requires no reward, and is to be sought for itself, unaccompanied by external benefits.
  [Lat., Judice te mercede caret, per seque petenda est
  Externis virtus incomitata bonis.]

  Ovid

  Benefits, Rewards, Judgment

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• In war the olive branch of peace is of use.
  [Lat., Adjuvat in bello pacatae ramus olivae.]

  Ovid

  War, Use, Olive Branches

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• If the subject's easy we may all be wise;
  What stands unfirm, the smallest force overthrows.

  Ovid

  Wise, Wisdom, May

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• Friendship is but a name, faith is an empty name. Alas,
  it is not safe to praise to a friend the object of your love;
  as soon as he believes your praises, he slips into your place.

  Ovid

  Friendship, Believe, Names

  Ovid, G. P. Goold (1985). “The art of love, and other poems”

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• Constant Penelope sends to thee, careless Ulysses.
  Write not again, but come, sweet mate

  Ovid

  Sweet, Writing, Lovers

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• Tis on the living Envy feeds. She silent grows
  When, after death, man's honor is his guard.
  So I, when on the pyre consumed I lie,
  Shall live, for all that's noblest will survive.

  Ovid

  Death, Lying, Men

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• Man's last day must ever be awaited and none to be
  counted happy until his death, until his last funeral rites
  are paid.

  Ovid

  Death, Men, Funeral

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• If you would conquer Love, he must be fought
  At his first onslaught; sprinkle but a drop
  Of water, the new-kindled flame expires.

  Ovid

  Love, Flames, Water

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• There is no brotherhood between love and dignity,
  Nor can they share the same abode.

  Ovid

  Love, Brotherhood, Dignity

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• Ovid lies here, the poet, skilled in love's gentle sport;
  By his own talents he worked his undoing.
  Oh, you who pass by, if ever you have loved,
  Think it not a burden to wish him calm repose.

  Ovid

  Love, Sports, Lying

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• You put aside the work that's done, and seek some work to do.

  Ovid

  Work, Done

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• The earth yields up her stores, of every ill
  The instigators; iron, foe to man,
  And gold, than iron deadlier.

  Ovid

  Money, Men, Yield

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• She who resists as though she would not win,
  By her own treason falls an easy prey.

  Ovid

  Betrayal, Fall, Winning

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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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• Art lies in concealing art.

  Ovid

  Art, Lying, Concealing

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• For in this strange anatomy we wear, the head has greater powers than the hand; the spirit, heart, and mind are over all.

  Ovid

  Heart, Hands, Mind

  Ovid (1960). “The Metamorphoses”, Signet

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• Believe me, the gods spare the afflicted, and do not always oppress those who are unfortunate.

  Ovid

  Believe, Affliction, Unfortunate

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