Ovid Quotes - Page 6

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

  Ovid

  Fiction, Facts, Speak

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• When there is plenty of wine, sorrow and worry take wing.

  Ovid

  Wine, Wings, Worry

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• The gods have their own rules.

  Ovid

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• "Gutta cavat lapidem." (Dripping water carves a stone.)

  Ovid

  Water, Stones, Dripping Water

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• Whatever charm thou hast, be charming.

  Ovid

  Charming, Charm

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• A wealthy traveller fears an ambush, while one with empty pockets journeys on in safety.

  Ovid

  Journey, Safety, Pockets

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• Skill makes love unending.

  Ovid

  Love, Skills, Making Love

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

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• That pleasure which can be safely indulged in is the least inviting.

  Ovid

  Pleasure, Inviting

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• Great talents, by the rust of long disuse,
  Grow lethargic and shrink from what they were.

  Ovid

  Long, Rust, Talent

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• Tears are at times as eloquent as words. [Weeping hath a voice.]

  Ovid

  Voice, Tears, Eloquent

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• Ants do no bend their ways to empty barns, so no friend will visit the place of departed wealth.
  [Lat., Horrea formicae tendunt ad inania nunquam
  Nullus ad amissas ibit amicus opes.]

  Ovid

  Departed, No Friends, Way

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• If God be my friend, I cannot be wretched.

  Ovid

  God, Wretched, My Friends

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• There is some joy in weeping. For our tears
  Fill up the cup, then wash our pain away.

  Ovid

  Pain, Joy, Sorrow

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• Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships, the poor man everywhere lies low.

  Ovid

  Life, Success, Money

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• I attempt a difficult work; but there is no excellence without difficulty.
  [Lat., Ardua molimur; sed nulla nisi ardua virtus.]

  Ovid

  Difficult Work, Excellence, Difficult

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• Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves.

  Ovid

  Moving, Water, Sloth

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• A field becomes exhausted by constant tillage.

  Ovid

  Agriculture, Fields, Exhausted

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• When a rose dies, a thorn is left behind.

  Ovid

  Rose, Left Behind, Behinds

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• Burdens become light when cheerfully borne.

  Ovid

  Attitude, Light, Burden

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• So long as you are secure you will count many friends; if your life becomes clouded you will be alone.

  Ovid

  Long, Secure, Clouded

  Ovid (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)”, p.1315, Delphi Classics

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• There is a divinity within our breast.

  Ovid

  Divinity, Breasts

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• The glow of inspiration warms us; it is a holy rapture.

  Ovid

  Life, Inspiration, Holy

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• Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.

  Ovid

  Powerful, Power, Habit

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• The mind, conscious of rectitude, laughed to scorn the falsehood of report.

  Ovid

  Mind, Conscious, Rectitude

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• To feel our ills is one thing, but to cure them is another.

  Ovid

  Cures, Feels, One Thing

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