Ovid Quotes - Page 8

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• If God be my friend, I cannot be wretched.

  Ovid

  God, Wretched, My Friends

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• Nothing retains its form; new shapes from old. Nature, the great inventor, ceaselessly contrives. In all creation, be assured, there is no death - no death, but only change and innovation; what we men call birth is but a different new beginning; death is but to cease to be the same. Perhaps this may have moved to that, and that to this, yet still the sum of things remains the same.

  Ovid

  Death, New Beginnings, Men

  Ovid,, A. D. Melville, E. J. Kenney (2008). “Metamorphoses”, p.359, Oxford University Press

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• The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.

  Ovid

  Punishment, Prison, Crime

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• We are charmed by neatness: Let not your hair be out of order.
  [Lat., Munditiis capimur: non sine lege capilli.]

  Ovid

  Hair, Order, Charmed

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• There is a certain pleasure in weeping.

  Ovid

  Cry, Pleasure, Certain

  Ovid (1879). “Ovid”

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• We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.

  Ovid

  Life Changing, Inspiration, Desire

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• It is a kingly act to help the fallen.

  Ovid

  Helping, Fallen

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• Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.

  Ovid

  Drinking, Paganism, Ancient

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• Bring a lawsuit against a man who can pay; the poor man's acts are not worth the expense

  Ovid

  Men, Pay, Poor

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• To dismiss a guest is a more ungracious act than not to admit him at all.

  Ovid

  Guests

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• Grief brims itself and flows away in tears.

  Ovid

  Grief, Tears, Flow

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• The rose is often found near the nettle.

  Ovid

  Rose, Found, Nettles

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• Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.

  Ovid

  Time, Hate, Anger

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• Gutta cavat lapidem, non vi sed saepe cadendo. (The drop excavates the stone, not with force but by falling often.)

  Ovid

  Fall, Stones, Evolution

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• Chastity, once lost, cannot be recalled; it goes only once.

  Ovid

  Lost, Chastity

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• O fool, what else is sleep but chill death's likeness?

  Ovid

  Death, Sleep, Fool

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• Wind feeds the fire, and wind extinguishes:
  The flames are nourished by a gentle breeze,
  Yet, if it stronger grows, they sink and die.

  Ovid

  Love, Fire, Flames

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• As wave is driven by wave
  And each, pursued, pursues the wave ahead,
  So time flies on and follows, flies, and follows,
  Always, for ever and new. What was before
  Is left behind; what never was is now;
  And every passing moment is renewed.

  Ovid

  Passing Moments, Time Flies, Wave

  Ovid (1998). “Metamorphoses”, OUP Oxford

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• Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.

  Ovid

  Punishment, Delay, Bitterness

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• Those presents are the most acceptable which are enhanced by our regard for the donor.

  Ovid

  Donors, Regard, Acceptable

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• Live without envy, spend your peaceful years
  Unknown to fame, and choose your peers for friends.

  Ovid

  Friendship, Years, Envy

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• I can't live without you or with you.

  Ovid

  Can't Live Without You, Without You, I Can

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• A mind conscious of right laughs at the falsehoods of rumour.
  [Lat., Conscia mens recti famae mendacia risit.]

  Ovid

  Laughing, Mind, Conscious

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• Love fed fat soon turns to boredom.

  Ovid

  Boredom, Feds, Fats

  Ovid (1957). “The Loves: The Art of Beauty, The Remedies for Love, and The Art of Love”, p.65, Indiana University Press

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• I hate a woman who offers herself because she ought to do so, and cold and dry thinks of her sewing when making love.

  Ovid

  Hate, Thinking, Hypocrisy

  Ovid (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)”, p.328, Delphi Classics

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