Ovid Quotes - Page 17

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• Time spent in the cultivation of the fields passes very pleasantly.

  Ovid

  Agriculture, Fields, Cultivation

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• Few people want the pleasures they are free to take.

  Ovid

  Happiness, People, Joy

  Ovid (1932). “The Love Books of Ovid”, p.83, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

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• A man is sorry to be honest for nothing.

  Ovid

  Sorry, Honesty, Men

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• Pluck with quick hand the fruit that passes.

  Ovid

  Opportunity, Hands, Fruit

  Ovid, G. P. Goold (1985). “The art of love, and other poems”

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• Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

  Ovid

  Silence, Causes, Silent

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• May you live unenvied, and pass many pleasant years unknown to fame; and also have congenial friends.
  [Lat., Vive sine invidia, mollesque inglorius annos
  Exige; amicitias et tibi junge pares.]

  Ovid

  Years, Contentment, May

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• Against the bold, daring is unsafe.

  Ovid

  Daring, Unsafe

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• Where crime is taught from early years, it becomes a part of nature.

  Ovid

  Years, Taught, Prison

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• My intention is to tell of bodies changed into new forms.

  Ovid

  Change, Body, Intention

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• Our native soil draws all of us, by I know not what sweetness, and never allows us to forget.

  Ovid

  Soil, Forget, Homesickness

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• We must improve our time; time goes with rapid foot.

  Ovid

  Time, Feet, Rapids

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• It is not safe to despise what Love commands. He reigns supreme, and rules the mighty gods.

  Ovid

  Life, Safe, Reign

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• Everything changes, nothing is lost.

  Ovid

  Things Change, Lost

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• The judge's duty is to inquire about the time, as well as the facts.

  Ovid

  Judging, Facts, Duty

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• Poetry comes fine-spun from a mind at peace.

  Ovid

  Poetry, Mind, Fine

  Ovid (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)”, p.1299, Delphi Classics

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• That load becomes light which is cheerfully borne.

  Ovid

  Light, Cheerfulness, Load

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• Beauty is heaven's gift, and how few can boast of beauty.

  Ovid

  Beauty, Heaven, Boast

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• Few love what they may have.

  Ovid

  Love, Appreciation, May

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• She that weds well will wisely match her love, Nor be below her husband nor above.

  Ovid

  Husband, Matrimony, Wells

  Ovid (1808). “Ovid's Epistles. Translated into English verse by various authors. To which is prefixed the Life of Ovid”, p.131

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• Nor is there any law more just, than that he who has plotted death shall perish by his own plot.

  Ovid

  Law, Plot, Murder

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• By faithful study of the nobler arts, our nature's softened, and more gentle grows.

  Ovid

  Art, Faithful, Study

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• It is good to be taught even by an enemy

  Ovid

  Enemy, Taught

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• A frail gift is beauty, which grows less as time draws on, and is devoured by its own years.

  Ovid

  Beauty, Years, Frail

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• Love is a believing creature.

  Ovid

  Love, Believe, Heart

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• Great is the strife between beauty and modesty.

  Ovid

  Beauty, Modesty, Strife

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