Ovid Quotes - Page 22

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• What is hid is unknown: for what is unknown there is no desire.
  [Lat., Quod latet ignotum est; ignoti nulla cupido.]

  Ovid

  Ignorance, Desire

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• Art lies by its own artifice.

  Ovid

  Art, Lying, Deception

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• The deeds of men never escape the gods.
  [Lat., Acta deos nunquam mortalia fallunt.]

  Ovid

  Men, Deeds

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• The gods see the deeds of the righteous.
  [Lat., Di pia facta vident.]

  Ovid

  Deeds, Righteous

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• A pleasing countenance is no slight disadvantage.
  [Lat., Auxilium non leve vultus habet.]

  Ovid

  Beauty, Disadvantages, Countenance

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• Women's words are as light as the doomed leaves whirling in autumn, Easily swept by the wind, easily drowned by the wave.

  Ovid

  Women, Autumn, Light

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• Love is born of idleness and, once born, by idleness is fostered.

  Ovid

  Love Is, Born, Idleness

  Ovid (1932). “The Love Books of Ovid”, p.203, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

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• The earth yields up her stores, of every ill
  The instigators; iron, foe to man,
  And gold, than iron deadlier.

  Ovid

  Money, Men, Yield

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• A soldier when aged is not appreciated; the love of an old man sickens.

  Ovid

  Men, Soldier, Appreciated

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• That you may please others you must be forgetful of yourself.

  Ovid

  People, May, Forgetful

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• Grief is put to flight and assuaged by generous draughts.

  Ovid

  Grief, Flight, Draught

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• A bitter drug oft brings relief.

  Ovid

  Drug, Relief, Bitter

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• Love's dominion, like a kings, admits of no partition.

  Ovid

  Love, Kings, Dominion

  Ovid (1932). “The Love Books of Ovid”, p.187, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

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• Remove the temptation of idleness and Cupid's bow is useless.

  Ovid

  Temptation, Useless, Bows

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• Who would have known of Hector, if Troy had been happy? The road to valor is built by adversity.

  Ovid

  Adversity, Valor, Hector

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• It is some alleviation to ills we cannot cure to speak of them.

  Ovid

  Speak, Cures

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• Thou beginnest better than thou endest.
  The last is inferior to the first.
  [Lat., Coepisti melius quam desinis. Ultima primis cedunt.]

  Ovid

  Ultima, Lasts, Firsts

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• Winged time glides on insensibly, and deceive us; and there is nothing more fleeting than years.

  Ovid

  Years, Fleeting, Deceiving

  Ovid (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)”, p.1010, Delphi Classics

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• Wine, not too much, inspires and make the mind,to the soft joys of Venus strong inclined,which, buried in excess, unapt to love,stupidly lies and knows not hom to move

  Ovid

  Strong, Lying, Moving

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• In war the olive branch of peace is of use.
  [Lat., Adjuvat in bello pacatae ramus olivae.]

  Ovid

  War, Use, Olive Branches

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• I attempt an arduous task but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement

  Ovid

  Accomplishment, Goal, Achievement

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• When a house is tottering to its fall,
  The strain lies heaviest on the weakest part,
  One tiny crack throughout the structure spreads,
  And its own weight soon brings it toppling down.

  Ovid

  Lying, Fall, House

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• Love is a credulous thing.

  Ovid

  Life, Love Is

  Ovid (1852). “The Heroides: Or Epistles of the Heroines, The Amours, Art of Love, Remedy of Love and Minor Works of Ovid”, p.52

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• Love is a kind of warfare.

  Ovid

  Love, Break Up, Broken Heart

  Ovid (2015). “The Art Of Love”, p.36, Ovid

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• There is no need of words; believe facts.
  [Lat., Non opus est verbis, credite rebus.]

  Ovid

  Believe, Needs, Facts

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