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• For this reason, if you believe proverbs, let me tell you the common one: "It is unlucky to marry in May.

  Ovid

  Believe, May, Common

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• Leve fit quod bene fertur onus.
  The burden which is well borne becomes light.

  Ovid

  Courage, Light, Fit

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• Alas! How difficult it is to prevent the countenance from betraying guilt!

  Ovid

  Guilt, Difficult, Betray

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• A woman is always buying something.

  Ovid

  Funny, Buying Something, Buying

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• If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

  Ovid

  Marriage, Memories, Equal

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• I have never injured anybody with a mordant poem; my
  verse contains charges against nobody. Ingenuous, I have
  shunned wit steeped in venom--not a letter of mine is dipped
  in poisonous jest.

  Ovid

  Poetry, Letters, Jest

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• Every woman thinks herself attractive; even the plainest is satisfied with the charms she deems that she possesses.

  Ovid

  Women, Thinking, Attractive

  Ovid (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)”, p.308, Delphi Classics

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• Our advantages fly away without aid. Pluck the flower.
  [Lat., Nostra sine auxilio fugiunt bona. Carpite florem.]

  Ovid

  Flower, Opportunity, Fly Away

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• The iron ring is worn out by constant use.
  [Lat., Ferreus assiduo consumitur anulus usu.]

  Ovid

  Iron, Use, Action

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• The raven once in snowy plumes was drest,
  White as the whitest dove's unsullied breast,
  Fair as the guardian of the Capitol,
  Soft as the swan; a large and lovely fowl
  His tongue, his prating tongue had changed him quite
  To sooty blackness from the purest white.

  Ovid

  Ravens, White, Swans

  Ovid (1833). “Ovid”, p.56

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• Although the power is lacking, the will is commendable.

  Ovid

  Latin, Lacking, Commendable

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• The spirits run riot in youth.

  Ovid

  Running, Spirit, Youth

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• The gift derives its value from the rank of the giver.

  Ovid

  Generosity, Stewardship, Giver

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• Niobe would have been called most blessed of mothers,
  had she not seemed so herself.

  Ovid

  Mother, Blessed, Motherhood

  Ovid (1960). “Metamorphoses”

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• A gift in time of need is most acceptable.

  Ovid

  Needs, Time Of Need, Acceptable

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• If the art is concealed, it succeeds.

  Ovid

  Art, Philosophy, History

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• We take no pleasure in permitted joys,
  But what's forbidden is more keenly sought.

  Ovid

  Joy, Pleasure, Forbidden

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• Often they benefit who suffer wrong.

  Ovid

  Suffering, Benefits

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• Art is most effective when concealed.

  Ovid

  Art, Art Is, Concealed

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• From high Meonia's rocky shores I came, Of poor decsent, Acoetes is my name, My sire was measly born: no oxen ploughed, His fruitful fields, nor in his pastures lowed, His whole estate within the waters lay' With lines and hooks he caught the finny prey; His art was all his livelehood, which he Thus with his dying lips bequeathed to me: In streams, my boy, and rivers take thy chance; There swims', said he, Thy whole inheritance.

  Ovid

  Art, Boys, Sea

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• Take the advice of light when you're looking at linens or jewels; Looking at faces or forms, take the advice of the day.

  Ovid

  Beauty, Light, Jewels

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• Love conquers all things; let us own her dominion.

  Ovid

  Dominion, Love Conquers All, Conquer

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• Nothing aids which may not also injure us.
  Fire serves us well, but he who plots to burn
  His neighbor's roof arms his hands with fire.

  Ovid

  Fire, Hands, Plot

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• The wit of man has devised cruel statutes,
  And nature oft permits what is by law forbid.

  Ovid

  Men, Law, Permit

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• A thousand ills require a thousand cures.

  Ovid

  Cures, Thousand

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

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