Ovid's Quotes

#1. There are as many characters in men
As there are shapes in nature.

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#2. If thou wishest to put an end to love, attend to business (love yields to employment); then thou wilt be safe.
[Lat., Qui finem quaeris amoris,
(Cedit amor rebus) res age; tutus eris.]

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#3. By yielding you may obtain victory

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

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#5. What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

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#6. for no god may undo what another god has done...

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#7. The gods have their own rules.

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#8. Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.

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#9. Nothing is stronger than habit.

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#10. Dignity and love do not blend well, nor do they continue long together.

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#11. Majesty and love do not well agree, nor do they live together.

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#12. Spare the soul that feels a deadly wound.

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#13. Occupy yourself, and you will be out of harm's way.

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#14. While strength and years permit, endure labor; soon bent old age will come with silent foot.
[Lat., Dum vires annique sinunt, tolerate labores.
Jam veniet tacito curva senecta pede.]

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#15. He loved a lifeless thing and he was utterly and hopelessly wretched.

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#16. There is a good deal in a man's mode of eating.

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#17. If you would conquer Love, he must be fought
At his first onslaught; sprinkle but a drop
Of water, the new-kindled flame expires.

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#18. To be loved, be lovable." - Ovid

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#19. Everyone is desirous of his own pursuits, and loves
To spend his time in his accustomed art.

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#20. Nothing aids which may not also injure us.
Fire serves us well, but he who plots to burn
His neighbor's roof arms his hands with fire.

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#21. Love is a kind of warfare.

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#22. As the hawk is wont to pursue the trembling doves.

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

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#24. Take the advice of light when you're looking at linens or jewels; Looking at faces or forms, take the advice of the day.

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#25. Idleness ruins the constitution

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#26. Destroy our leisure and you break love's bow.

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#27. Novelty in all things is charming.

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#28. Some people think that because they do the opposite of what they are asked to do, they have initiative

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#29. Simplicity is a jewel rarely found.

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#30. Take rest; a field that has rested gives a beautiful crop.

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#31. Love is a kind of military service

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#32. Our native soil draws all of us, by I know not what sweetness, and never allows us to forget.

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#33. Envy, the meanest of vices, creeps on the ground like a serpent.

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#34. The cause is hidden. The effect is visible to all.

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#35. What is without periods of rest will not endure.

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#36. Fair Flora! Now attend thy sportful feast,
Of which some days I with design have past;
A part in April and a part in May
Thou claim'st, and both command my tuneful lay;
And as the confines of two months are thine
To sing of both the double task be mine.

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#37. Truly it is allowed us to weep: by weeping we disperse our wrath; and tears go through the heart, even like a stream.
[Lat., Flere licet certe: flendo diffundimus iram:
Perque sinum lacrimae, fluminis instar enim.]

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#38. Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him,
Easy-going enough once you acknowledge his power.

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#39. It is the poor man who'll ever count his flock.

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#40. It is something to hold the scepter with a firm hand.
[Lat., Est aliquid valida sceptra tenere manu.]

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

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#42. Love and dignity do not dwell together.

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#43. The brave find a home in every land.

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#44. Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery.

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#45. A woman is a creature that's always shopping.

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#46. Birth and ancestry, and that which we have not ourselves achieved, we can scarcely call our own.

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#47. There is a deity within us who breathes that divine fire by which we are animated.

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#48. Deadly poisons are concealed under sweet honey.

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#49. What is hid is unknown: for what is unknown there is no desire.
[Lat., Quod latet ignotum est; ignoti nulla cupido.]

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#50. As God is propitiated by the blood of a hundred bulls, so also is he by the smallest offering of incense.
[Lat., Sed tamen ut fuso taurorum sanguine centum,
Sic capitur minimo thuris honore deux.]

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#51. Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.

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#52. Out of many things a great heap will be formed.
[Lat., De multis grandis acervus erit.]

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#53. An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

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#54. Fortune and love favor the brave.

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

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#56. Nor is there any law more just, than that he who has plotted death shall perish by his own plot.

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#57. Temporis ars medicina fere est.
Time is generally the best medicine.

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#58. Not for any one man's delight has Nature made
the sun, the wind, the waters; all are free.

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#59. Where belief is painful we are slow to believe.

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#60. In war the olive branch of peace is of use.
[Lat., Adjuvat in bello pacatae ramus olivae.]

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#61. All human things hang on a slender thread, the strongest fall with a sudden crash.

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#62. Diseases of the mind impair the bodily powers.

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#63. The sick mind can not bear anything harsh.
[Lat., Mensque pati durum sustinet aegra nihil.]

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#64. Heaven rewards the pious; those who cherish the gods
Themselves are cherished.

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#65. A pleasing countenance is no light advantage.

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#66. The sea's vast depths lie open to the fish;
Wherever the breezes blow the bird may fly;
So to the brave man every land's a home.

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#67. I am above being injured by fortune, though she steals away much, more will remain with me. The blessing I now enjoy transcend fear.

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#68. The laws allow arms to be taken against an armed foe.

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#69. The earth yields up her stores, of every ill
The instigators; iron, foe to man,
And gold, than iron deadlier.

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

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

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#72. Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.

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#73. Thanks are justly due for things got without purchase.
[Lat., Gratia pro rebus merito debetur inemtis.]

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#74. Often they benefit who suffer wrong.

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#75. A soldier when aged is not appreciated; the love of an old man sickens.

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#76. He lives well who lives retired, and keeps
His wants within the limits of his means.

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#77. When a rose dies, a thorn is left behind.

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

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#79. Beauty- it was a favor bestowed by the gods.

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#80. The gods behold all righteous actions.

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#81. The poet's labors are a work of joy, and require peace of mind.

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#82. That you may please others you must be forgetful of yourself.

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#83. A gift in time of need is most acceptable.

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#84. We praise times past, while we times present use;
Yet due the worship which to each we give.

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#85. The iron ring is worn out by constant use.
[Lat., Ferreus assiduo consumitur anulus usu.]

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#86. If you would be loved, be lovable

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#87. That you may be beloved, be amiable.

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#88. O ye gods! what thick encircling darkness blinds the minds of men!

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#89. Eurydice, dying now a second time, uttered no complaint against her husband. What was there to complain of, but that she had been loved?

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#90. He is a foolish swimmer who swims against the stream, when he might take the current sideways.

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#91. Nothing is stronger than Custom
(Fac tibi consuescat: nil adsuetudine maius)

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#92. Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.

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#93. 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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#94. Truly now is the golden age; the highest honour comes by means of gold; by gold love is procured.

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#95. The drop excavates the stone, not with force but by falling often.

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#96. Though the power be wanting, yet the wish is praiseworthy.

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#97. Dear to girls' hearts is their own beauty.

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#98. Thou fool, what is sleep but the image of death? Fate will give an eternal rest.
[Lat., Stulte, quid est somnus, gelidae nisi mortis imago?
Longa quiescendi tempora fata dabunt.]

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#99. Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.

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#100. Barbarus hic ego sum, quia non intelligor illis.
(In this place I am a barbarian, because men do not understand me.)

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