Ovid Quotes - Page 4

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• When the roses are gone, nothing is left but the thorn.

  Ovid

  Memories, Rose, Gone

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• All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

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  Evil, Mind, May

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• When the character's right, looks are a greater delight.

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  Character, Looks, Delight

  Ovid (1957). “The Loves: The Art of Beauty, The Remedies for Love, and The Art of Love”, p.100, Indiana University Press

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• In the make-up of human beings, intelligence counts for more than our hands, and that is our true strength.

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  Hands, True Strength, Humans

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• What makes men indifferent to their wives is that they can see them when they please.

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  Marriage, Men, Wife

  Ovid (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)”, p.343, Delphi Classics

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• Only the mind cannot be sent into exile.

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  Education, Teacher, Mind

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• The gods have their own rules.

  Ovid

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• So long as you are secure you will count many friends; if your life becomes clouded you will be alone.

  Ovid

  Long, Secure, Clouded

  Ovid (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)”, p.1315, Delphi Classics

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• Tears at times have the weight of speech.

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  Tears, Weight, Speech

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• Keep thy hook always baited, for a fish lurks even in the most unlikely swim.

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  Swim, Hook, Unlikely

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• A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.

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  Leadership, Vision, Empowering Others

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• Work while your strength and years permit you; crooked age will by-and-by come upon you with silent foot.

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  Years, Feet, Age

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• Love will enter cloaked in friendship's name.

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  Friendship, Real, Names

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• All things change, nothing perishes.

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  Change, Growth, Spirituality

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• The ungovernable passion for wealth.
  [Lat., Opum furiata cupido.]

  Ovid

  Passion, Wealth

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• As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

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  Honesty, Adversity, Commitment

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• Brass shines with constant usage, a beautiful dress needs wearing,Leave a house empty, it rots.

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  Beautiful, House, Shining

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• Tis not always in a physician's power to cure the sick; at times the disease is stronger than trained art.

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  Art, Sick, Stronger

  Pontic Epistles I.III.17

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• Love is a thing that is full of cares and fears.

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  Short Love, Love Is, Care

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• The mind grows sicker than the body in contemplation of it's suffering.

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  Mind, Suffering, Body

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• If you count the sunny and the cloudy days of the whole year, you will find that the sunshine predominates.

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  Happiness, Sunshine, Years

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• In our play we reveal what kind of people we are.

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  Sports, Play, People

  Ovid (1957). “The Loves: The Art of Beauty, The Remedies for Love, and The Art of Love”, p.164, Indiana University Press

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• There is some joy in weeping. For our tears
  Fill up the cup, then wash our pain away.

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  Pain, Joy, Sorrow

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• Skill makes love unending.

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  Love, Skills, Making Love

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

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• There is nothing in the whole world which abides. All things are in a state of ebb and flow, and every shadow passes away. Even time itself, like a river, is constantly gliding away .

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  Ebb And Flow, Rivers, Shadow

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