Ovid Quotes - Page 19

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• If it were in my power, I would be wiser; but a newly felt power carries me off in spite of myself; love leads me one way, my understanding another.

  Ovid

  Self Love, Understanding, Way

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• If Jupiter should hurl a bolt whenever men sin,
  His armory would quickly be empty.

  Ovid

  Men, Jupiter, Sin

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• Only begin, and you will become eloquent of yourself.

  Ovid

  Speech, Eloquent

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• There is no excellency without difficulty.

  Ovid

  Excellence, Difficulty

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• Women can always be caught; that's the first rule of the game.

  Ovid

  Women, Games, Firsts

  Ovid (1957). “The Loves: The Art of Beauty, The Remedies for Love, and The Art of Love”, p.113, Indiana University Press

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• The sick mind can not bear anything harsh.
  [Lat., Mensque pati durum sustinet aegra nihil.]

  Ovid

  Sick, Mind, Bears

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• That tuneful nymph, the babbling Echo.

  Ovid

  Echoes, Nymphs, Babbling

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• Devouring Time and envious Age, all things yield to you; and with lingering death you destroy, step by step, with venomed tooth whatever you attack.

  Ovid

  Yield, Age, Steps

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• Though the power be wanting, yet the wish is praiseworthy.

  Ovid

  Power, Wish, Praiseworthy

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• Sleep, rest of things, O pleasing Deity,
  Peace of the soul, which cares dost crucify,
  Weary bodies refresh and mollify.

  Ovid

  Sleep, Insomnia, Soul

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• everything changes, nothing perishes

  Ovid

  Change, Things Change

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• When the lightning strikes but one, not one only does it terrify.

  Ovid

  Lightning, Doe, Strikes

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• Seeking is all very well, but holding requires greater talent: Seeking involves some luck; now the demand is for skill.

  Ovid

  Skills, Luck, Demand

  Ovid (1957). “The Loves: The Art of Beauty, The Remedies for Love, and The Art of Love”, p.130, Indiana University Press

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• Love is the force that leaves you colorless

  Ovid

  Love Is, Force, Colorless

  Ovid (2005). “Metamorphoses: A New Translation”, p.131, W. W. Norton & Company

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• All things human hang by a slender thread; and that which seemed to stand strong suddenly falls and sinks in ruins.

  Ovid

  Strong, Fall, Ruins

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• If he should love deny him what he loves!

  Ovid

  Deny, Should, Ifs

  Ovid, Brookes More (1978). “Ovid”

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• These are the evils which result from gossiping habits.

  Ovid

  Evil, Habit, Results

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• Little things please little minds.

  Ovid

  Mind, Littles, Little Things

  Ovid, Stanley Appelbaum (2010). “The Art of Love”, p.9, Courier Corporation

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• It's right to learn, even from the enemy.

  Ovid

  Enemy

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• A wound will perhaps become tolerable with length of time; but wounds which are raw shudder at the touch of the hands.

  Ovid

  Hands, Length, Tolerable

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• There is a god within us, and the heavens
  Have intercourse with earth; from realms above
  That spirit comes.

  Ovid

  God, Heaven, Earth

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• We do not bear sweets; we are recruited by a bitter potion.

  Ovid

  Sweet, Medicine, Bears

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• Diseases of the mind impair the bodily powers.

  Ovid

  Mind, Disease

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• Thy destiny is only that of man, but thy aspirations may be those of a god.

  Ovid

  Destiny, Men, May

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• We can learn even from our enemies.

  Ovid

  Enemy

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