Ovid Quotes - Page 6

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• Tears are at times as eloquent as words. [Weeping hath a voice.]

  Ovid

  Voice, Tears, Eloquent

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• First try all other means, but if the wound
  Heal not, then use the knife, lest to the clean
  From the diseased the canker spread.

  Ovid

  Mean, Knives, Trying

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• Haste is productive of injury, and so is too much hesitation. He is the wisest man who does everything at the proper time.

  Ovid

  Men, Wisest Man, Too Much

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• Yield to him who opposes you; by yielding you conquer.

  Ovid

  Yield, Understanding, Conquer

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• As the hawk is wont to pursue the trembling doves.

  Ovid

  Hawks, Dove, Trembling

  Ovid (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)”, p.869, Delphi Classics

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• Small minds are captivated by trifles.

  Ovid

  Mind, Trifles, Small Minds

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• It's a kindness that the mind can go where it wishes.

  Ovid

  Kindness, Mind, Wish

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• A woman is a creature that's always shopping.

  Ovid

  Women, Shopping, Creatures

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• The crop always seems better in our neighbor's field, and our neighbor's cow gives more milk.

  Ovid

  Giving, Cows, Fields

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• Virtue and vice, evil and good, are siblings, or next-door neighbors, Easy to make mistakes, hard to tell them apart.

  Ovid

  Sibling, Mistake, Doors

  Ovid (1957). “The Loves: The Art of Beauty, The Remedies for Love, and The Art of Love”, p.191, Indiana University Press

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• Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships, the poor man everywhere lies low.

  Ovid

  Life, Success, Money

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• Ants do no bend their ways to empty barns, so no friend will visit the place of departed wealth.
  [Lat., Horrea formicae tendunt ad inania nunquam
  Nullus ad amissas ibit amicus opes.]

  Ovid

  Departed, No Friends, Way

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• Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.

  Ovid

  Fear, Men, Wish

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• I hate, and yet must love the thing I hate.

  Ovid

  Love, Hate, Love Hate

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• What one beholds of a woman is the least part of her.

  Ovid

  Women

  Ovid (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)”, p.357, Delphi Classics

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• It is but a small merit to observe silence, but it is a grave fault to speak of matters on which we should be silent.

  Ovid

  Silence, Matter, Faults

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• I attempt a difficult work; but there is no excellence without difficulty.
  [Lat., Ardua molimur; sed nulla nisi ardua virtus.]

  Ovid

  Difficult Work, Excellence, Difficult

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• Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves.

  Ovid

  Moving, Water, Sloth

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• The glow of inspiration warms us; it is a holy rapture.

  Ovid

  Life, Inspiration, Holy

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• Our native land charms us with inexpressible sweetness, and never never allows us to forget that we belong to it.
  [Lat., Nescio qua natale solum dulcedine captos
  Ducit, et immemores non sinit esse sui.]

  Ovid

  Land, Patriotism, Forget

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• Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.

  Ovid

  Good Day, Sorrow, One Day

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• Truly now is the golden age; the highest honour comes by means of gold; by gold love is procured.

  Ovid

  Mean, Love Is, Gold

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• Courage conquers all things:
  it even gives strength to the body.

  Ovid

  Inspirational, Strength, Courage

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• Men should not care too much for good looks; neglect is becoming.

  Ovid

  Men, Looks, Care

  Ovid (1957). “The Loves: The Art of Beauty, The Remedies for Love, and The Art of Love”, p.121, Indiana University Press

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• Burdens become light when cheerfully borne.

  Ovid

  Attitude, Light, Burden

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