Ovid Quotes - Page 20

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• A light breath fans the flame, a violent gust extinguishes it.

  Ovid

  Light, Flames, Fans

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• Envy feeds on the living. It ceases when they are dead.

  Ovid

  Envy, Cease

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• I too am not powerless, and my weapons strike hard.

  Ovid

  Weapons, Strikes, Hard

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• Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery.

  Ovid

  Lying, Differences, Knavery

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• As many as the shells that are on the shore, so many are
  the pains of love; the darts that wound are steeped in
  much poison.

  Ovid

  Love, Pain, Poison

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

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• The workmanship was better than the subject matter.

  Ovid

  Latin, Matter, Workmanship

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• The man who falls in love chill find plenty of occupation.

  Ovid

  Falling In Love, Men, Occupation

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• Envy depreciates the genius of the great Homer.

  Ovid

  Envy, Genius, Depreciate

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• Wherever I look there is nothing but the image of death.

  Ovid

  Death, Looks

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• Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.

  Ovid

  Jupiter, Lovers, Perjury

  Ovid (1852). “The Heroides: Or Epistles of the Heroines, The Amours, Art of Love, Remedy of Love and Minor Works of Ovid”, p.403

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• The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late.

  Ovid

  Time, Past, Thinking

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• Remove but the temptations of leisure, and the bow of Cupid will lose its effect.

  Ovid

  Temptation, Bows, Leisure

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• It is hope which makes the shipwrecked sailor strike out with his arms in the midst of the sea, though no land is in sight.

  Ovid

  Sight, Sea, Land

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• Ere land and sea and the all-covering sky Were made, in the whole world the countenance Of nature was the same, all one, well named Chaos, a raw and undivided mass, Naught but a lifeless bulk, with warring seeds Of ill-joined elements compressed together.

  Ovid

  Nature, Science, Sea

  Ovid,, A. D. Melville, E. J. Kenney (2008). “Metamorphoses”, p.1, Oxford University Press

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• Opportunity is ever worth expecting; let your hood be ever hanging ready. The fish will be in the pool where you least imagine it to be.

  Ovid

  Opportunity, Pool, Imagine

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• The hunter follows things which flee from him; he leaves them when they are taken; and ever seeks for that which is beyond what he has found.
  [Lat., Venator sequitur fugientia; capta relinquit;
  Semper et inventis ulteriora petit.]

  Ovid

  Taken, Future, Hunters

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• Out of many things a great heap will be formed.
  [Lat., De multis grandis acervus erit.]

  Ovid

  Trifles

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• Fortune and love favour the brave.
  [Lat., Audentem Forsque Venusque juvant.]

  Ovid

  Bravery, And Love, Favour

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• The sea's vast depths lie open to the fish;
  Wherever the breezes blow the bird may fly;
  So to the brave man every land's a home.

  Ovid

  Lying, Home, Blow

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• Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.

  Ovid

  Time, Years, Reign

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• Happy the man who ventures boldly to defend what he holds dear.

  Ovid

  Courage, Men, Venture

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• I cannot keep track of all the vagaries of fashion, Every day, so it seems, brings in a different style.

  Ovid

  Fashion, Track, Style

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• Love is a kind of military service

  Ovid

  Military, Inspiration, Love Is

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• Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

  Ovid

  Time, Words Of Wisdom, Return

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• There are a thousand forms of evil; there will be a thousand remedies.

  Ovid

  Evil, Form, Thousand

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