Ovid Quotes - Page 13

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• Mad desire, when it has the most, longs for more

  Ovid

  Mad, Desire

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• What is lawful is undesirable; what is unlawful is very attractive.
  [Lat., Quod licet est ingratum quod non licet acrius urit.]

  Ovid

  Pleasure, Attractive, Unlawful

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• You who seek an end of love, love yields to business: be busy, and you will be safe.

  Ovid

  Love, Business, Yield

  'Remedia Amoris' l. 143

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• Although they posses enough, and more than enough still they yearn for more.

  Ovid

  Wealth, Enough, Posse

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• Thanks are justly due for boons unbought

  Ovid

  Thankful, Gratitude, Thanks

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• Love is a thing full of anxious fears.

  Ovid

  Life, Love Is, Anxious

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• Whatever charm thou hast, be charming.

  Ovid

  Charming, Charm

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• The more highminded a man is the more easily is his anger appeased.

  Ovid

  Men

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• You do not know it but you are the talk of all the town.
  [Lat., Fabula (nec sentis) tota jactaris in urba.]

  Ovid

  Gossip, Towns, Knows

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• All human things hang on a slender thread, the strongest fall with a sudden crash.

  Ovid

  Love, Life, Fall

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

  Ovid

  Fear, Psychology, Mind

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• Agreeing to differ.
  [Lat., Discors concordia.]

  Ovid

  Argument

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• Let ancient times delight other folk, I rejoice that I was not born till now.

  Ovid

  Delight, Ancient, Born

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• Fas est ab hoste doceri.
  One should learn even from one's enemies.

  Ovid

  Enemy, Should

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• Dripping water hollows out a stone

  Ovid

  Rivers, Water, Environmental

  'Epistulae Ex Ponto' bk. 4, no. 10, l. 5.

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• A pious fraud.
  [Lat., Pia fraus.]

  Ovid

  Deceit, Fraud, Pious

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• What ignorance there is in human minds.

  Ovid

  Ignorance, Mind, Humans

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• Let love steal in disguised as friendship.

  Ovid

  Life, Stealing

  Ovid (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)”, p.311, Delphi Classics

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• Things which of themselves avail nothing, when united become powerful.

  Ovid

  Powerful, United

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• He whom all hate all wish to see destroyed.

  Ovid

  Hate, Wish, Destroyed

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• Even the gods are moved by the voice of entreaty.

  Ovid

  Voice, Request, Moved

  Ovid (1932). “The Love Books of Ovid”, p.125, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

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• The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.

  Ovid

  Prayer, Coward, Fortune

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• Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe.

  Ovid

  Love, Business, Safety

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• If you have a voice, sing; but if you have good arms, then go in for dancing.

  Ovid

  Dance, Voice, Dancing

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• The act is judged of by the event.

  Ovid

  Events, Judged

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