Ovid Quotes - Page 27

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• What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps with it alone, she lives.

  Ovid

  Sleep, Doe

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• Very slight violence will break that which has once been cracked.

  Ovid

  Violence, Break, Cracked

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• Truly it is allowed us to weep: by weeping we disperse our wrath; and tears go through the heart, even like a stream.
  [Lat., Flere licet certe: flendo diffundimus iram:
  Perque sinum lacrimae, fluminis instar enim.]

  Ovid

  Heart, Wrath, Tears

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• What is harder than stone?
  What more soft than water?
  Nevertheless hard though the rock be, it is hollowed by the wave.

  Ovid

  Rocks, Water, Stones

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• What is now an act of reason, was but blind impulse.

  Ovid

  Blind, Reason, Impulse

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• Eurydice, dying now a second time, uttered no complaint against her husband. What was there to complain of, but that she had been loved?

  Ovid

  Husband, Dying, Complaining

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• Our neighbour's crop is always more fruitful and his cattle produce more milk than our own.

  Ovid

  Milk, Crops, Produce

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• Anything cracked will shatter at a touch.

  Ovid

  Cracked

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• I am above being injured by fortune, though she steals away much, more will remain with me. The blessing I now enjoy transcend fear.

  Ovid

  Fear, Blessing, Stealing

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• Knowest thou not that kings have long hands?
  [Lat., An nescis longos regibus esse manus?]

  Ovid

  Kings, Hands, Long

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• It is something to hold the scepter with a firm hand.
  [Lat., Est aliquid valida sceptra tenere manu.]

  Ovid

  Hands, Royalty, Firm

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• Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

  Ovid

  Marriage, Society, Dowry

  Ovid (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)”, p.316, Delphi Classics

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• There will grow from straws a mighty heap.

  Ovid

  Accumulation, Grows, Straws

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• The wild boar is often held by a small dog.
  [Lat., A cane non magno saepe tenetur aper.]

  Ovid

  Dog, Power, Small Dogs

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• Heavens! what thick darkness pervades the minds of men.
  [Lat., Pro superi! quantum mortalia pectora caecae,
  Noctis habent.]

  Ovid

  Men, Heaven, Darkness

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• All-devouring time, envious age,
  Nought can escape you, and by slow degrees,
  Worn by your teeth, all things will lingering die.

  Ovid

  Time, Age, Degrees

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• The god we now behold with opened eyes,
  A herd of spotted panthers round him lies
  In glaring forms; the grapy clusters spread
  On his fair brows, and dangle on his head.

  Ovid

  Lying, Eye, Panthers

  Ovid, “Metamorphoses: Book The Third”

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• The mind is sicker than the sick body; in contemplation of its sufferings it becomes hopeless.
  [Lat., Corpore sed mens est aegro magis aegra; malique
  In circumspectu stat sine fine sui.]

  Ovid

  Sick, Mind, Suffering

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• Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts. Finley Peter Dunne There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.

  Ovid

  Men, Naps, Alcohol

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• You will hardly conquer, but conquer you must.
  [Lat., Male vincetis, sed vincite.]

  Ovid

  Males, Conquer, Conquest

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• There is no pleasure pure and simple, and some care always
  comes to mar our joys.

  Ovid

  Simple, Joy, Mars

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• I am an exile; but it is the fault that pains;
  The punishment is nought; that it is deserved
  Is all the pain.

  Ovid

  Pain, Punishment, Faults

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• Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts.
  [Lat., Candida pax homines, trux decet ira feras.]

  Ovid

  Peace, Men, Ira

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• It is prudence that first forsakes the wretched.

  Ovid

  Firsts, Prudence, Wretched

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• A pleasing countenance is no light advantage.

  Ovid

  Light, Advantage, Countenance

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