Ovid Quotes - Page 7

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• Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.

  Ovid

  Good Day, Sorrow, One Day

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• A woman is a creature that's always shopping.

  Ovid

  Women, Shopping, Creatures

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• The ungovernable passion for wealth.
  [Lat., Opum furiata cupido.]

  Ovid

  Passion, Wealth

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• Love is an affair of credulity.

  Ovid

  Love, Love Is, Affair

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• First try all other means, but if the wound
  Heal not, then use the knife, lest to the clean
  From the diseased the canker spread.

  Ovid

  Mean, Knives, Trying

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• Tis not always in a physician's power to cure the sick; at times the disease is stronger than trained art.

  Ovid

  Art, Sick, Stronger

  Pontic Epistles I.III.17

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• As the hawk is wont to pursue the trembling doves.

  Ovid

  Hawks, Dove, Trembling

  Ovid (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)”, p.869, Delphi Classics

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• The mind ill at ease, the body suffers also.

  Ovid

  Mind, Suffering, Ease

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• Give way to your opponent; thus will you gain the crown of victory.

  Ovid

  Giving, Victory, Crowns

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• It's a kindness that the mind can go where it wishes.

  Ovid

  Kindness, Mind, Wish

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• Small minds are captivated by trifles.

  Ovid

  Mind, Trifles, Small Minds

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• Brass shines with constant usage, a beautiful dress needs wearing,Leave a house empty, it rots.

  Ovid

  Beautiful, House, Shining

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• Be bold, take courage... and be strong of soul

  Ovid

  Strong, Soul

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• There is no excellency without difficulty.

  Ovid

  Excellence, Difficulty

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• The end doesn't justify the means.

  Ovid

  Inspirational, Mean, Ends

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• Happy the man who can count his sufferings.

  Ovid

  Men, Suffering, He Man

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• It is but a small merit to observe silence, but it is a grave fault to speak of matters on which we should be silent.

  Ovid

  Silence, Matter, Faults

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• Chaste is she whom no one has asked.

  Ovid

  Sex, Chaste

  Ovid (1914). “Heroides and Amores”

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• Either you pursue or push, O Sisyphus, the stone destined to keep rolling.
  [Lat., Aut petis aut urgues ruiturum, Sisyphe, saxum.]

  Ovid

  Rolling, Stones, Action

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• Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.

  Ovid

  Beauty, Reality, Vision

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• Grief brims itself and flows away in tears.

  Ovid

  Grief, Tears, Flow

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• Men should not care too much for good looks; neglect is becoming.

  Ovid

  Men, Looks, Care

  Ovid (1957). “The Loves: The Art of Beauty, The Remedies for Love, and The Art of Love”, p.121, Indiana University Press

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• He who has it in his power to commit sin, is less inclined to do so. The very idea of being able, weakens the desire.

  Ovid

  Ideas, Desire, Able

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• I grabbed a pile of dust, and holding it up, foolishly asked for as many birthdays as the grains of dust, I forgot to ask that they be years of youth.

  Ovid

  Happy Birthday, Dust, Years

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• Thus I am not able to exist either with you or without you; and I seem not to know my own wishes.

  Ovid

  Life, Wish, Able

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