Ovid Quotes - Page 16

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• Adde, quod ingénues didicisse fideliter artes Emollit mores, nec sinit esse fervos. To be instructed in the arts, softens the manners and makes men gentle.

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  Art, Teaching, Men

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• Man looks aloft, and with erected eyes Beholds his hereditary skies.

  Ovid

  Eye, Men, Sky

  Ovid, “Metamorphoses: Book The First”

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• Thus all things altered. Nothing dies. And here and there the unbodied spirit flies.

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  Death, Here And There, Spirit

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• Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.

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  Blame, Prison, Multitudes

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• A boar is often held by a not-so-large dog.

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  Dog, Boars

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• Time is the devourer of all things.

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  Time, Time Management, All Things

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• There is a divinity within our breast.

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  Divinity, Breasts

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• Simplicity, very rare in our age.

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  Simplicity, Stupidity, Age

  Ovid (2015). “The Offense of Love: Ars Amatoria, Remedia Amoris, and Tristia 2”, p.64, University of Wisconsin Pres

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• That, which has not its alternation of rest, will not last long.

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  Long, Lasts

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• It is the poor man who'll ever count his flock.

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  Money, Men, Poor

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• Either attempt it not, or succeed.

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  Success, Succeed

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• Pursuits become habits.
  [Lat., Abeunt studia in mores.]

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  Habit, Pursuit

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• You start in April and cross to the time of May
  One has you as it leaves, one as it comes
  Since the edges of these months are yours and defer
  To you, either of them suits your praises.
  The Circus continues and the theatre's lauded palm,
  Let this song, too, join the Circus spectacle.

  Ovid

  Song, Spring, Theatre

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• Ah me! love can not be cured by herbs.

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  Love, Life, Valentines Day

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• In time the bull is brought to wear the yoke.
  [Lat., Tempore ruricolae patiens fit taurus aratri.]

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  Education, Yoke, Bulls

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• Those gifts are ever the most acceptable which the giver makes precious.
  [Lat., Acceptissima semper munera sunt auctor quae pretiosa facit.]

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  Giver, Acceptable

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• You will be safest in the middle.

  Ovid

  Middle

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• Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.

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  Courage, Drinking, Passion

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• Good-bye to the lies of the poets.
  [Lat., Valeant mendacia vatum.]

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  Lying, Bye, Good Bye

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• Today is truly the Golden Age: gold buys hornor, gold procures love

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  Age, Gold, Today

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• Bear patiently with a rival.

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  Patience, Enemy, Rivals

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• Hastiness is the beginning of wrath, and its end repentance.

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  Wrath, Repentance, Ends

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• The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.

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  Envy, Fields, Crops

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• Courage conquers all things.

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  Life, Courage, Conquer

  Ovid (1988). “Tristia”, Loeb Classical Library

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• Dear to the heart of a girl is her own beauty and charm.

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  Girl, Women, Heart

  Ovid (1957). “The Loves: The Art of Beauty, The Remedies for Love, and The Art of Love”, p.100, Indiana University Press

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