Ovid Quotes - Page 10

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• If he did not succeed, he at least failed in a glorious undertaking.

  Ovid

  Success, Succeed, Glorious

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• He, who is not prepared today, will be less so tomorrow.

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  Military, Today, Tomorrow

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• When I was from Cupid's passions free, my Muse was mute and wrote no elegy.

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  Passion, Muse, Cupid

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• A red rose peeping through a white? Or else a cherry (double graced) Within a lily? Centre placed? Or ever marked the pretty beam, A strawberry shows, half drowned in cream? Or seen rich rubies blushing through A pure smooth pearl, and orient too? So like to this, nay all the rest, Is each neat niplet of her breast.

  Ovid

  White, Rose, Erotic

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• Tempus fugit (time flies).

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  Time, Time Flies

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• The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

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  Leadership, Running, Encouragement

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• Love is an affair of credulity.

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  Love, Love Is, Affair

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• Time is a stream which glides smoothly on and is past before we know.

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  Past, Streams, Knows

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

  Ovid

  Art, Character, Faithful

  Ovid (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)”, p.1441, Delphi Classics

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• It is less to suffer punishment than to deserve it.
  [Lat., Estque pati poenas quam meruisse minus.]

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  Punishment, Suffering, Minus

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

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  Heaven, Rewards, Cherish

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• Friendship is but a name; fidelity but an empty name.

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  Names, Empty, Losing Friendship

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• That which never has been, never is, and never will be.

  Ovid

  Has Beens

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• I could not possibly count the gold-digging ruses of women, Not if I had ten mouths, not if I had ten tongues.

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  Greed, Gold, Digging

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• We hate the hawk because he ever lives in battle.

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  Hate, Battle, Hawks

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• A short absence is the safest.

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  Safety, Absence

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• This letter gives me a tongue; and were I not allowed to write, I should be dumb.
  [Lat., Praebet mihi littera linguam:
  Et, si non liceat scribere, mutus ero.]

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  Writing, Giving, Dumb

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• Jupiter has no leisure to attend to little things.

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  Jupiter, Littles, Leisure

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• Pleasure is sweetest when 'tis paid for by another's pain.

  Ovid

  Pain, Sadism, Pleasure

  Ovid (1932). “The Love Books of Ovid”, p.135, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

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• There is no small pleasure in pure water.

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  Water, Small Pleasures, Pure

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

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  Motivational, Spiritual, Fire

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• It is ill to marry in the month of May.

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  Marriage, May, Months

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• Isn't the best defense always a good attack?

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  Wisdom, Peace, War

  Ovid (1957). “The Loves: The Art of Beauty, The Remedies for Love, and The Art of Love”, p.28, Indiana University Press

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

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  Time, Medicine

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• The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal.

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  May, Crime, Penalties

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