Ovid Quotes - Page 15

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• He who says o'er much I love not is in love.

  Ovid

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

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• Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.

  Ovid

  Women, Long, Elude

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

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• In an easy matter. Anybody can be eloquent.

  Ovid

  Matter, Easy, Conversation

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• The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

  Ovid

  Love, Giving, Glory

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• An evil life is a kind of death.

  Ovid

  Life, Death, Evil

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• It is not easy to bear prosperity unruffled.

  Ovid

  Bears, Prosperity, Easy

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• To feel our ills is one thing, but to cure them is another.

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  Cures, Feels, One Thing

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• Though strength be wanting, the will to action
  Merits praise.

  Ovid

  Merit, Action, Praise

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• Every delay that postpones our joys, is long.
  [Lat., Longa mora est nobis omnis, quae gaudia differt.]

  Ovid

  Long, Joy, Delay

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• The wounded limb shrinks from the slightest touch; and a slight shadow alarms the nervous.
  [Lat., Membra reformidant mollem quoque saucia tactum:
  Vanaque sollicitis incutit umbra metum.]

  Ovid

  Fear, Shadow, Alarms

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• He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.

  Ovid

  Falling In Love, Fall, Indolence

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• No man provokes me with impunity.

  Ovid

  Men, Provoking, Impunity

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• That you may be beloved, be amiable.

  Ovid

  Love, May, Beloved

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• Right it is to be taught even by the enemy.

  Ovid

  Enemy, Taught

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• The battle is over when the foe has fallen.

  Ovid

  Battle, Fallen, Foe

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• Beauty- it was a favor bestowed by the gods.

  Ovid

  Favors

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• A lover fears all that he believes.

  Ovid

  Love, Believe, Heart

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• By looking at squinting people you learn to squint.

  Ovid

  Squinting, People

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• Good hope is often beguiled by her own augury.

  Ovid

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• No thanks attach to a kindness long deferred.

  Ovid

  Kindness, Long, Thanks

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• What is more useful than fire? Yet if any one prepares to burn a house, it is with fire that he arms his daring hands.

  Ovid

  Fire, Hands, House

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• Fair peace is becoming to men; fierce anger belongs to beasts.

  Ovid

  Anger, Men, Becoming

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• It is the mind that makes the man, and our vigour is in our immortal soul.

  Ovid

  Men, Soul, Mind

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• I see and approve better things, but follow worse.

  Ovid

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• Tempus edax rerum. Time the devourer of everything.

  Ovid

  Time

  Metamorphoses bk. 15, l. 234

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