Ovid Quotes - Page 3

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• All love is vanquished by a succeeding love.

  Ovid

  Love, Love Is, Succeed

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

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• Often a silent face has voice and words.

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  Voice, Faces, Silent

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• Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.

  Ovid

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Integrity

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• The cause is hidden, but the result is known.
  [Lat., Causa latet: vis est notissima.]

  Ovid

  Causes, Results, Known

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• The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.

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  Reality, Oil, Lamps

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• Rest strengthens the body, the mind too is thus supported; but unremitting toil destroys both.

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  Mind, Toil, Body

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• Passion persuades me one way, reason another. I see the better and approve it, but I follow the worse.

  Ovid

  Passion, Way, Reason

  Ovid (1994). “Metamorphoses: books I-VIII”

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• I flee who chases me and chase who flees me.

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  Ovid (1932). “The Love Books of Ovid”, p.71, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

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• There is a God within us, and we glow when He stirs us.

  Ovid

  God Within Us

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• Trivial losses often prove great gains.

  Ovid

  Loss, Gains, Prove

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• I am the poet of the poor, because I was poor when I loved; since I could not give gifts, I gave words.

  Ovid

  Giving, Poet, Poor

  Ovid, G. P. Goold (1985). “The art of love, and other poems”

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• One does not yearn for that which is easily acquired.

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  Doe, Longing, Yearning

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• Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength.

  Ovid

  Grief, Grieving, Rage

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• Twice does he live who can enjoy the remembrance of the past.

  Ovid

  Past, Remembrance, Doe

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• All other creatures look down toward the earth, but man was given a face so that might turn his eyes toward the stars and his gaze upon the sky.

  Ovid

  Stars, Eye, Men

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• Love and dignity do not dwell together.

  Ovid

  Together, Dignity

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• The result proves the wisdom of the act.

  Ovid

  Results, Prove

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• Meet the disorder in the outset, the medicine may be too late, when the disease has gained ground through delay.

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  Medicine, Too Late, Delay

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• He who can simulate sanity will be sane.

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  Sanity, Sane, Simulate

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• Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.

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  Powerful, Power, Habit

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• There is no useful thing which may not be turned to an injurious purpose.

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  Purpose, May, Useful Things

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• Nothing is more useful to man that those arts which have no utility.

  Ovid

  Art, Men, Utility

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• The brave find a home in every land.

  Ovid

  Home, Land, Bravery

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• Do not believe hastily.

  Ovid

  Believe, Belief

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• Men do not value a good deed
  unless it brings a reward.

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  Men, Deeds, Rewards

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