Ovid Quotes

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• Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.

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  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.

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  Change, Life Changing, Persistence

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• Difficulty is what wakes up the genius.

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  Wake Up, Genius, Difficulty

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• Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.

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  Happiness, Happy, Hurt

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• Love is no assignment for cowards.

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  Love, Relationship, Marriage

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• If you are not ready today, you will be even less so tomorrow.

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  Procrastination, Today, Tomorrow

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• What is harder than rock, or softer than water? Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere.

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  Life, Motivational, Rocks

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  A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.

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  Motivational, Running, Horse

  Ovid (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)”, p.343, Delphi Classics

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• Habits change into character.

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  Change, Character, Ancient

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

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  Mean, Want, Limits

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• Fortune and love favor the brave.

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  Love, Inspiring, Depressing

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• There is nothing constant in the universe. All ebb and flow, and every shape that's born, bears in its womb the seeds of change.

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  Destiny, Ebb And Flow, Shapes

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• The mightiest rivers lose their force when split up into several streams.

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  Rivers, Splits, Force

  Ovid (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)”, p.359, Delphi Classics

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• Consider the misfortunes of others, and you will be the better able to bear your own.

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  Able, Bears, Misfortunes Of Others

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• Stop short of your appetite; eat less than you are able.

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  Food, Able, Appetite

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• Make good use of your time, it flies fast.

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  Use

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• My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.
  [Lat., Et res non semper, spes mihi semper adest.]

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  Hope

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• You will be melancholy, if you are solitary.

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  Melancholy, Solitary, Ifs

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• Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop

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  Inspirational, Success, Wisdom

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• Beauty is a fragile gift.

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  Beauty, Fragile

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• The purpose of law is to prevent the strong always having their way.

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  Strong, Law, Purpose

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• Simplicity is a jewel rarely found.

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  Jewels, Simplicity, Found

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• The vulgar crowd values friends according to their usefulness.

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  Crowds, Vulgar, Usefulness

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• All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

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  Change, Nature, Age

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• Nothing is stronger than habit.

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  Inspirational, Humor, Deep Thought

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