Ovid Quotes - Page 5

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• Rest strengthens the body, the mind too is thus supported; but unremitting toil destroys both.

  Ovid

  Mind, Toil, Body

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• As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

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  Honesty, Adversity, Commitment

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• Only the mind cannot be sent into exile.

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  Education, Teacher, Mind

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• Tears at times have the weight of speech.

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  Tears, Weight, Speech

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• This also, that I live, I consider a gift of God.

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  Life, God, God Life

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• When the character's right, looks are a greater delight.

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  Character, Looks, Delight

  Ovid (1957). “The Loves: The Art of Beauty, The Remedies for Love, and The Art of Love”, p.100, Indiana University Press

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• Pleasant words are the food of love.

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  Pleasant

  Ovid (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)”, p.316, Delphi Classics

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• Let the man who does not wish to be idle, fall in love.

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  Life, Falling In Love, Men

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• Whether they yield or refuse, it delights women to have been asked.

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  Yield, Dating, Romance

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• Let ancient times delight other folk, I rejoice that I was not born till now.

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  Delight, Ancient, Born

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• The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.

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  Men, Sea, Sailing

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• In the make-up of human beings, intelligence counts for more than our hands, and that is our true strength.

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  Hands, True Strength, Humans

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• Virtue and vice, evil and good, are siblings, or next-door neighbors, Easy to make mistakes, hard to tell them apart.

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  Sibling, Mistake, Doors

  Ovid (1957). “The Loves: The Art of Beauty, The Remedies for Love, and The Art of Love”, p.191, Indiana University Press

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• Every one who repeats it adds something to the scandal. [The rolling snow-ball.]

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  Snow, Rolling, Add

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• If you count the sunny and the cloudy days of the whole year, you will find that the sunshine predominates.

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  Happiness, Sunshine, Years

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• The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.

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  Prayer, Coward, Fortune

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• Love will enter cloaked in friendship's name.

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  Friendship, Real, Names

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• He who has lived obscurely and quietly has lived well.

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  Obscurity, Wells

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• Happy is he who dares courageously to defend what he loves.

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  Love, Positive, Happy

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• I hate, and yet must love the thing I hate.

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  Love, Hate, Love Hate

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• Meet the disorder in the outset, the medicine may be too late, when the disease has gained ground through delay.

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  Medicine, Too Late, Delay

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• I am dragged along by a strange new force. Desire and reason are pulling in different directions. I see the right way and approve it, but follow the wrong.

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  Desire, Different, Way

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• Do not believe hastily.

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  Believe, Belief

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• I shall speak facts; but some will say I deal in fiction.

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  Fiction, Facts, Speak

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• He who says o'er much I love not is in love.

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

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