Ovid Quotes - Page 7

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• An injury may prove a blessing.

  Ovid

  Blessing, May, Injury

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• Some wounds grow worse beneath the surgeon's hand;
  Better that they were not touched at all.

  Ovid

  Hands, Restraint, Grows

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• Either you pursue or push, O Sisyphus, the stone destined to keep rolling.
  [Lat., Aut petis aut urgues ruiturum, Sisyphe, saxum.]

  Ovid

  Rolling, Stones, Action

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• He who has lived obscurely and quietly has lived well.

  Ovid

  Obscurity, Wells

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• Be bold, take courage... and be strong of soul

  Ovid

  Strong, Soul

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• He is a foolish swimmer who swims against the stream, when he might take the current sideways.

  Ovid

  Simplicity, Swim, Might

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• I grabbed a pile of dust, and holding it up, foolishly asked for as many birthdays as the grains of dust, I forgot to ask that they be years of youth.

  Ovid

  Happy Birthday, Dust, Years

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• Chaste is she whom no one has asked.

  Ovid

  Sex, Chaste

  Ovid (1914). “Heroides and Amores”

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• As the mind of each man is conscious of good or evil, so does he conceive within his breast hope or fear, according to his actions.

  Ovid

  Men, Evil, Mind

  Ovid (1851). “The Fasti ; Tristia ; Pontic epistles ; Ibis ; and Halieuticon of Ovid”, p.31

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• Gold will buy the highest honours; and gold will purchase love.

  Ovid

  Gold, Honour, Highest

  Ovid (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)”, p.318, Delphi Classics

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• The more they drink the more they thirst.

  Ovid

  Drink, Thirst

  Ovid, Betty Rose Nagle (1995). “Ovid's Fasti: Roman Holidays”, p.200, Indiana University Press

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• Lovers remember everything.
  [Lat., Meminerunt omnia amantes.]

  Ovid

  Remembers Everything, Lovers, Remember

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• Happy the man who can count his sufferings.

  Ovid

  Men, Suffering, He Man

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• Thus I am not able to exist either with you or without you; and I seem not to know my own wishes.

  Ovid

  Life, Wish, Able

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• The end doesn't justify the means.

  Ovid

  Inspirational, Mean, Ends

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• Venus favors the bold.

  Ovid

  Favors, Venus, Flirtation

  Ovid (1997). “Ovid's Metamorphoses”, p.422, University of Oklahoma Press

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• Spare the soul that feels a deadly wound.

  Ovid

  Soul, Injury, Feels

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• We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.

  Ovid

  Desire, Coveting, Strive

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• Happy is he who dares courageously to defend what he loves.

  Ovid

  Love, Positive, Happy

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• You can learn from anyone even your enemy.

  Ovid

  Learning, Enemy, Teachability

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• Luck affects everything; let your hook always be cast.

  Ovid

  Good Luck, Lucky Day, Hook

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• You will go most safely in the middle.

  Ovid

  Safety, Middle

  Metamorphoses bk. 2, l. 137

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• Pleasant words are the food of love.

  Ovid

  Pleasant

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

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• The whole earth is the brave man's country.
  [Lat., Omne solum forti patria est.]

  Ovid

  Country, Men, Brave

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• A burthen cheerfully borne becomes light

  Ovid

  Light

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