Ovid quotes - page 6

Use the occasion, for it passes swiftly. (Ovid)

There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.

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You can learn from anyone even your enemy.

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

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Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.

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Little things please little minds.

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Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.

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

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Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength.

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

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Endure and persist, this pain will turn good by and by. (Ovid)

Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.

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

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Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.

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Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.

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Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.

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Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.

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Most safely shall you tread the middle path.

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The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.

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Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.

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Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay. (Ovid)

Now are fields of corn where Troy once stood.

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They bear punishment with equanimity who have earned it.

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Jupiter from above laughs at lovers' perjuries.

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Chaos, a rough and unordered mass.

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Ovid

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

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