Ovid Quotes - Page 5

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• I shall speak facts; but some will say I deal in fiction.

  Ovid

  Fiction, Facts, Speak

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• To be silent is but a small virtue; but it is a serious fault to reveal secrets.

  Ovid

  Silence, Secret, Faults

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• Perfer et obdura; dolor hic tibi proderit olim.
  Have patience and endure; this unhappiness will one day be beneficial.

  Ovid

  Patience, One Day, Unhappiness

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• Well has he lived who has lived well in obscurity.

  Ovid

  Solitude, Obscurity, Wells

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• The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool.

  Ovid

  Men, Fire, May

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• A field becomes exhausted by constant tillage.

  Ovid

  Agriculture, Fields, Exhausted

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• I am dragged along by a strange new force. Desire and reason are pulling in different directions. I see the right way and approve it, but follow the wrong.

  Ovid

  Desire, Different, Way

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• A wealthy traveller fears an ambush, while one with empty pockets journeys on in safety.

  Ovid

  Journey, Safety, Pockets

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• The bold adventurer succeeds the best.

  Ovid

  Adventure, Succeed, Life Adventure

  Ovid (1833). “Ovid”, p.237

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• How little you know about the age you live in if you think that honey is sweeter than cash in hand

  Ovid

  Money, Thinking, Hands

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• Those gifts are ever more precious which the giver has made precious.

  Ovid

  Made, Giver

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• "Gutta cavat lapidem." (Dripping water carves a stone.)

  Ovid

  Water, Stones, Dripping Water

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• When there is plenty of wine, sorrow and worry take wing.

  Ovid

  Wine, Wings, Worry

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• Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses.

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  Flower, Rose, Joy

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• Every one who repeats it adds something to the scandal. [The rolling snow-ball.]

  Ovid

  Snow, Rolling, Add

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• Envy assails the noblest: the winds howl around the highest peaks.

  Ovid

  Jealousy, Wind, Envy

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• If thou wouldst marry wisely, marry thine equal.

  Ovid

  Marriage, Matrimony, Equal

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• Great talents, by the rust of long disuse,
  Grow lethargic and shrink from what they were.

  Ovid

  Long, Rust, Talent

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• Give way to your opponent; thus will you gain the crown of victory.

  Ovid

  Giving, Victory, Crowns

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• The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.

  Ovid

  Men, Sea, Sailing

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• Let the man who does not wish to be idle, fall in love.

  Ovid

  Life, Falling In Love, Men

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• When a rose dies, a thorn is left behind.

  Ovid

  Rose, Left Behind, Behinds

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• He who has it in his power to commit sin, is less inclined to do so. The very idea of being able, weakens the desire.

  Ovid

  Ideas, Desire, Able

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• This also, that I live, I consider a gift of God.

  Ovid

  Life, God, God Life

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• The mind ill at ease, the body suffers also.

  Ovid

  Mind, Suffering, Ease

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