Ovid quotes - page 5

Against the bold, daring is unsafe. (Ovid)
What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless. View quote
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Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality. View quote
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What is without periods of rest will not endure. View quote
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Often they benefit who suffer wrong. View quote
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To feel our ills is one thing, but to cure them is another. View quote
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There is a god within us. View quote
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Neglect of appearance becomes men. View quote
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Where belief is painful we are slow to believe. View quote
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It is annoying to be honest to no purpose. View quote
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The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool. (Ovid)
The heavier crop is ever in others' fields. View quote
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People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude. View quote
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Love is a credulous thing. View quote
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An evil life is a kind of death. View quote
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What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct. View quote
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Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with. View quote
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Fortune and love favor the brave. View quote
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The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses. View quote
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Habits change into character. View quote
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At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time. (Ovid)
Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body. View quote
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A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace. View quote
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Venus favors the bold. View quote
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Time is generally the best doctor. View quote
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Ovid

Occupation: Roman Poet
Born: 43 BC
Died: 17
Quotes count: 263
Wikipedia: Ovid

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