Ovid Quotes - Page 3

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• There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.

  Ovid

  Worry, Anxiety, Pleasure

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• One does not yearn for that which is easily acquired.

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  Doe, Longing, Yearning

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• Whilst you are prosperous you can number many friends; but when the storm comes you are left alone.

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  Numbers, Storm, Prosperity

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• Passion persuades me one way, reason another. I see the better and approve it, but I follow the worse.

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  Passion, Way, Reason

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

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• Twice does he live who can enjoy the remembrance of the past.

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  Past, Remembrance, Doe

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• The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.

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  Reality, Oil, Lamps

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• All love is vanquished by a succeeding love.

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  Love, Love Is, Succeed

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

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• Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength.

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  Grief, Grieving, Rage

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• It is the act of a coward to wish for death.

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  Military, Wish, Coward

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• You can learn from anyone even your enemy.

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  Learning, Enemy, Teachability

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• A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.

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  Leadership, Vision, Empowering Others

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• I am the poet of the poor, because I was poor when I loved; since I could not give gifts, I gave words.

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  Giving, Poet, Poor

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

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• Make good use of your time, it flies fast.

  Ovid

  Use

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• I flee who chases me and chase who flees me.

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  Ovid (1932). “The Love Books of Ovid”, p.71, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

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• Trivial losses often prove great gains.

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  Loss, Gains, Prove

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• The brave find a home in every land.

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  Home, Land, Bravery

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• To be silent is but a small virtue; but it is a serious fault to reveal secrets.

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  Silence, Secret, Faults

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• Perfer et obdura; dolor hic tibi proderit olim.
  Have patience and endure; this unhappiness will one day be beneficial.

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  Patience, One Day, Unhappiness

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• Time is generally the best doctor.

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  Time, Doctors, Medical

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• When you have set yourself a task finish it.

  Ovid

  Tasks

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• That's one of the greatest curses ever inflicted on the human race, memory.

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  Memories, Race, Curse

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• The mind grows sicker than the body in contemplation of it's suffering.

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  Mind, Suffering, Body

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• Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.

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  Fear, Psychology, Mind

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• Men do not value a good deed
  unless it brings a reward.

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  Men, Deeds, Rewards

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• Keep thy hook always baited, for a fish lurks even in the most unlikely swim.

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  Swim, Hook, Unlikely

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