Ovid Quotes - Page 14

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• Those dreams are true which we have in the morning, as the lamp begins to flicker.
  [Lat., Namque sub Aurora jam dormitante lucerna
  Sommia quo cerni tempore vera solent.]

  Ovid

  Dream, Morning, Lamps

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• That fair face will as years roll on lose its beauty, and old age will bring its wrinkles to the brow.

  Ovid

  Wrinkles, Years, Age

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• We are all bound thither; we are hastening to the same common goal. Black death calls all things under the sway of its laws.
  [Lat., Tendimus huc omnes; metam properamus ad unam. Omnia sub leges mors vocat atra suas.]

  Ovid

  Death, Law, Goal

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• O ye gods! what thick encircling darkness blinds the minds of men!

  Ovid

  Men, Darkness, Mind

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• When disposition wins us, the features please.

  Ovid

  Winning, Appearance, Disposition

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• We two [Deucalion and Pyrrha, after the deluge] form a multitude.
  [Lat., Nos duo turba sumus.]

  Ovid

  Future, Two, Duos

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• Tempore difficiles veniunt ad aratra juvenci;
  Tempore lenta pati frena docentur equi.
  In time the unmanageable young oxen come to the plough; in time the horses are taught to endure the restraining bit.

  Ovid

  Time, Horse, Oxen

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• The dove, O hawk, that has once been wounded by thy talons, is frightened by the least movement of a wing.
  [Lat., Terretur minimo pennae stridore columba
  Unguibus, accipiter, saucia facta tuis.]

  Ovid

  Fear, Wings, Movement

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• We suffer by our proximity. [Who get a blow intended for another.]

  Ovid

  Blow, Suffering, Proximity

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• Daring is not safe against daring men.

  Ovid

  Men, Risk, Safe

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• The love of fame puts spurs to the mind

  Ovid

  Mind, Spurs, Fame

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• Alas! how difficult it is not to betray one's guilt by one's looks.

  Ovid

  Betrayal, Guilt, Looks

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• This victory will be your I ruin.

  Ovid

  Victory, Ruins

  Ovid (2013). “Fasti”, p.137, OUP Oxford

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• Majesty and love do not well agree, nor do they live together.

  Ovid

  Life, Together, And Love

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• Fools laugh at the Latin language. -Rident stolidi verba Latina

  Ovid

  Laughter, Latin, Laughing

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• They come to see, they come that they themselves may be seen.
  [Lat., Spectatum veniunt, veniunt spectentur ut ipse.]

  Ovid

  May, Appearance

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• Love that is fed by jealousy dies hard.

  Ovid

  Life, Jealousy, Envy

  Ovid (1932). “The Love Books of Ovid”, p.216, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

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• It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

  Ovid

  Honesty, Annoyed, Purpose

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• It is some relief to weep; grief is satisfied and carried off by tears.

  Ovid

  Broken Heart, Breakup, Grief

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• There are as many characters in men
  As there are shapes in nature.

  Ovid

  Character, Men, Shapes

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• The love of country is more powerful than reason itself.

  Ovid

  Country, Powerful, Patriotism

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• The poet's labors are a work of joy, and require peace of mind.

  Ovid

  Joy, Mind, Poet

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

  Ovid

  Honesty, Adversity, Evil

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• Judgement of beauty can err, what with the wine and the dark.

  Ovid

  Beauty, Wine, Dark

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• Neglect of appearance becomes men.

  Ovid

  Men, Appearance, Neglect

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