Ovid Quotes - Page 11

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• Pursuits become habits.

  Ovid

  Habit, Pursuit

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• The cause is hidden; the effect is visible to all.

  Ovid

  Causes, Effects, Visible

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• To have properly studied the liberal sciences gives a polish to our manners, and removes all awkwardness.

  Ovid

  Giving, Manners, Polish

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• Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned.

  Ovid

  Keeping Promises, Broken Promises, Kept Promises

  Ovid (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)”, p.304, Delphi Classics

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• Had I not sinned what would there be for you to pardon. My fate has given you the opportunity for mercy.

  Ovid

  Fate, Opportunity, Sin

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• The gods have their own laws.
  [Lat., Sunt superis sua jura.]

  Ovid

  Law

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• Envy, the meanest of vices, creeps on the ground like a serpent.

  Ovid

  Envy, Vices, Creeps

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• It is the act of a coward to wish for death.

  Ovid

  Military, Wish, Coward

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• Destroy our leisure and you break love's bow.

  Ovid

  Love, Leisure, Bows

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• God himself favors the brave.

  Ovid

  Bravery, Brave, Favors

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• How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

  Ovid

  Children, Men, Promise

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• I see and praise what is better, but follow what is worse.

  Ovid

  Praise

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• Love is a naked child: do you think he has pockets for money?

  Ovid

  Love, Children, Thinking

  Ovid (1957). “The Loves: The Art of Beauty, The Remedies for Love, and The Art of Love”, p.31, Indiana University Press

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• Thanks are justly due for things got without purchase.
  [Lat., Gratia pro rebus merito debetur inemtis.]

  Ovid

  Gratitude, Thanks, Dues

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• Hate I shall, if I can; if I can't, I shall love though not willing.

  Ovid

  Hate, Willing, Ifs

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• He who holds the hook is aware in what waters many fish are swimming.

  Ovid

  Swimming, Lakes, Sea

  Ovid, John Henry Mozley (1979). “Ovid”, Loeb Classical Library

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

  Ovid

  Strong, Medicine, Evil

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• That pleasure which can be safely indulged in is the least inviting.

  Ovid

  Pleasure, Inviting

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• Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.

  Ovid

  Friendship, Men, Long

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• Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.

  Ovid

  Love, Friendship, Dignity

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• Excessive love in loathing ever ends.

  Ovid

  Love, Loathing, Ends

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• It's useful that there should be Gods, so let's believe there are.

  Ovid

  Crazy, Believe, Mad

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• Envy feeds on the living, after death it rests, then the honor of a man protects him.

  Ovid

  Death, Men, Envy

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• Put faith in one who's had experience.

  Ovid

  Experience

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• Not for any one man's delight has Nature made
  the sun, the wind, the waters; all are free.

  Ovid

  Nature, Men, Wind

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