Ovid Quotes - Page 9

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• O fool, what else is sleep but chill death's likeness?

  Ovid

  Death, Sleep, Fool

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• It is a pleasure appropriate to man, for him to save a fellow-man, and gratitude is acquired in no better way.

  Ovid

  Gratitude, Men, Fellow Man

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• Presents, believe me, seduce both men and gods.

  Ovid

  Believe, Men, Believe In Me

  Ovid (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)”, p.345, Delphi Classics

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• As wave is driven by wave
  And each, pursued, pursues the wave ahead,
  So time flies on and follows, flies, and follows,
  Always, for ever and new. What was before
  Is left behind; what never was is now;
  And every passing moment is renewed.

  Ovid

  Passing Moments, Time Flies, Wave

  Ovid (1998). “Metamorphoses”, OUP Oxford

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• The whole earth is the brave man's country.
  [Lat., Omne solum forti patria est.]

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  Country, Men, Brave

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• Bear patiently with a rival.

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  Patience, Enemy, Rivals

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• The mind that's conscious of its rectitude,
  Laughs at the lies of rumor.

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  Integrity, Lying, Laughing

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• We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.

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  Desire, Coveting, Strive

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• We are charmed by neatness: Let not your hair be out of order.
  [Lat., Munditiis capimur: non sine lege capilli.]

  Ovid

  Hair, Order, Charmed

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• If he should love deny him what he loves!

  Ovid

  Deny, Should, Ifs

  Ovid, Brookes More (1978). “Ovid”

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• We two are to ourselves a crowd.

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  Two, Crowds

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• A good disposition is a virtue in itself, and it is lasting; the burden of the years cannot depress it, and love that is founded on it endures to the end.

  Ovid

  Happiness, Beauty, Depressing

  Ovid (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)”, p.290, Delphi Classics

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• What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless.

  Ovid

  Sad, Pain, Grief

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• It is no less a feat to keep what you have, than to increase it. In one there is chance, the other will be a work of art.

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  Art, Chance, Increase

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• Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.

  Ovid

  Drinking, Paganism, Ancient

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• We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.

  Ovid

  Life Changing, Inspiration, Desire

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• Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.

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  Time, Hate, Anger

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• Courage conquers all things:
  it even gives strength to the body.

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  Inspirational, Strength, Courage

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• Live without envy, spend your peaceful years
  Unknown to fame, and choose your peers for friends.

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  Friendship, Years, Envy

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• Gutta cavat lapidem, non vi sed saepe cadendo. (The drop excavates the stone, not with force but by falling often.)

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  Fall, Stones, Evolution

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• The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.

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  Punishment, Prison, Crime

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• Wind feeds the fire, and wind extinguishes:
  The flames are nourished by a gentle breeze,
  Yet, if it stronger grows, they sink and die.

  Ovid

  Love, Fire, Flames

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• I can't live without you or with you.

  Ovid

  Can't Live Without You, Without You, I Can

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• It is a kingly act to help the fallen.

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  Helping, Fallen

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• There is a certain pleasure in weeping.

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  Cry, Pleasure, Certain

  Ovid (1879). “Ovid”

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