Ovid Quotes - Page 21

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• Wine stimulates the mind and makes it quick with heat; care flees and is dissolved in much drink.

  Ovid

  Wine, Mind, Care

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• Imperceptibly the hours glide on, and beguile us as they pass.

  Ovid

  Hours

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• Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

  Ovid

  Heart, Feelings, Details

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• Have consideration for wounded feelings.

  Ovid

  Feelings, Consideration, Wounded

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• Time itself flows on with constant motion, just like a river: for no more than a river can the fleeting hour stand still. As wave is driven on by wave, and, itself pursued, pursues the one before, so the moments of time at once flee and follow, and are ever new.

  Ovid

  Rivers, Fleeting, Flow

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• We have ploughed the vast ocean in a fragile bark.

  Ovid

  Ocean, Sea, Ships

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• The least strength suffices to break what is bruised.

  Ovid

  Strength, Break, Bruised

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• The wounded gladiator forswears all fighting, but soon forgetting his former wound resumes his arms.

  Ovid

  Fighting, Arms, Forget

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• Treat a thousand dispositions in a thousand ways.

  Ovid

  Way, Treats, Disposition

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• If Jupiter hurled his thunderbolt as often as men sinned, he would soon be out of thunderbolts.

  Ovid

  Men, Jupiter, Sin

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• Stones are hollowed out by the constant dropping of water.

  Ovid

  Water, Stones, Dropping

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• The mind conscious of innocence despises false reports: but we are a set always ready to believe a scandal.

  Ovid

  Believe, Mind, Scandal

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• What follows I flee; what flees I ever pursue.

  Ovid

  Progress, Pursue

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• Take away leisure and Cupid's bow is broken

  Ovid

  Broken, Leisure, Bows

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

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• Giving requires good sense.
  [Lat., Rest est ingeniosa dare.]

  Ovid

  Giving, Dare, Good Sense

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• Dear to girls' hearts is their own beauty.

  Ovid

  Girl, Heart, Vanity

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• Ah me! love can not be cured by herbs.
  [Lat., Hei mihi! quod nullis amor est medicabilis herbis.]

  Ovid

  Love, Amor, Herbs

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• Birth and ancestry, and that which we have not ourselves achieved, we can scarcely call our own.

  Ovid

  Ancestry, Birth

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• Gain, acquired by many agents, soon accumulates.

  Ovid

  Agents, Gains

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• Sickness seizes the body from bad ventilation.

  Ovid

  Body, Disease, Sickness

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• Every man should stay within his own fortune.
  [Lat., Intera fortunam quisque debet manere suam.]

  Ovid

  Men, Should, Fortune

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• The most wretched fortune is safe; for there is no fear of anything worse.
  [Lat., Fortuna miserrima tuta est:
  Nam timor eventus deterioris abest.]

  Ovid

  Safe, No Fear, Fortune

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• A broken fortune is like a falling column; the lower it sinks, the greater weight it has to sustain.

  Ovid

  Fall, Broken, Weight

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• The love of fame usually spurs on the mind.
  [Lat., Ingenio stimulos subdere fama solet.]

  Ovid

  Mind, Spurs, Fame

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• Death is not grievous to me, for I shall lay aside my pains by death.
  [Lat., Nec mihi mors gravis est posituro morte dolores.]

  Ovid

  Death, Pain, Lays

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