Ovid Quotes About Evil

Quotes about: Evil

• All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

  Ovid

  Evil, Mind, May

• An evil life is a kind of death.

  Ovid

  Life, Death, Evil

• As the mind of each man is conscious of good or evil, so does he conceive within his breast hope or fear, according to his actions.

  Ovid

  Men, Evil, Mind

  Ovid (1851). “The Fasti ; Tristia ; Pontic epistles ; Ibis ; and Halieuticon of Ovid”, p.31

• These are the evils which result from gossiping habits.

  Ovid

  Evil, Habit, Results

• He who sins easily, sins less. The very power
  Renders less vigorous the roots of evil.

  Ovid

  Roots, Evil, Sin

• Honesty, by evil fortune tried,
  Finds in adversity the seed of praise.

  Ovid

  Honesty, Adversity, Evil

• There are a thousand forms of evil; there will be a thousand remedies.

  Ovid

  Evil, Form, Thousand

• When worse may yet befall, there's room for prayer,
  But when our fortune's at its lowest ebb,
  We trample fear beneath our feet, and live
  Without a fear of evil yet to come.

  Ovid

  Prayer, Future, Feet

• Virtue and vice, evil and good, are siblings, or next-door neighbors, Easy to make mistakes, hard to tell them apart.

  Ovid

  Sibling, Mistake, Doors

  Ovid (1957). “The Loves: The Art of Beauty, The Remedies for Love, and The Art of Love”, p.191, Indiana University Press

• Face troubles from their birth, for 'tis too late to cure
  When long delay has given the evil strength.
  Haste then; postpone not to the coming hour: tomorrow
  He'll be less ready who's not ready now.

  Ovid

  Long, Evil, Haste

• Resist beginnings: it is too late to employ medicine when the evil has grown strong by inveterate habit.

  Ovid

  Strong, Medicine, Evil

• Riches, the incentives to evil, are dug out of the earth.

  Ovid

  Evil, Earth, Incentives

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