Ovid Quotes - Page 9

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• The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.

  Ovid

  Flower, Rose, Ancestry

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• The mind that's conscious of its rectitude,
  Laughs at the lies of rumor.

  Ovid

  Integrity, Lying, Laughing

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• The laws allow arms to be taken against an armed foe.

  Ovid

  Taken, Law, Arms

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

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• God gave man an upright countenance to survey the heavens, and to look upward to the stars.

  Ovid

  Stars, Men, Heaven

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• A good disposition is a virtue in itself, and it is lasting; the burden of the years cannot depress it, and love that is founded on it endures to the end.

  Ovid

  Happiness, Beauty, Depressing

  Ovid (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)”, p.290, Delphi Classics

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• There is something in omens.

  Ovid

  Magic, Omen

  Ovid (1852). “Ovid”, p.291

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• Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.

  Ovid

  Health, Medicine, Nurse

  Tristia

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• The result justifies the deed.

  Ovid

  Deeds, Results, Justify

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• A safe pleasure is a tame pleasure.

  Ovid

  Safe, Pleasure

  Ovid (1932). “The Love Books of Ovid”, p.189, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

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• Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.

  Ovid

  Heart, My Heart, Affectionate

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• Let the poor man mind his tongue

  Ovid

  Men, Mind, Tongue

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• What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless.

  Ovid

  Sad, Pain, Grief

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• To wish is of little account; to succeed you must earnestly desire; and this desire must shorten thy sleep.

  Ovid

  Ambition, Sleep, Wish

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• The mind, conscious of rectitude, laughed to scorn the falsehood of report.

  Ovid

  Mind, Conscious, Rectitude

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• It is a pleasure appropriate to man, for him to save a fellow-man, and gratitude is acquired in no better way.

  Ovid

  Gratitude, Men, Fellow Man

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• Riches, the incentives to evil, are dug out of the earth.

  Ovid

  Evil, Earth, Incentives

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• What we call birth
  Is but a beginning to be something else
  Than what we were before; and when we cease
  To be that something, then we call it death.

  Ovid

  Death, Birth, Cease

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• Lente, lente currite, noctis equi. Translation: Run slowly, slowly, horses of the night.

  Ovid

  Running, Horse, Night

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• To give requires good sense.

  Ovid

  Inspiring, Giving, Charity

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• We two are to ourselves a crowd.

  Ovid

  Two, Crowds

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• Use the occasion, for it passes swiftly.

  Ovid

  Opportunity, Use, Occasions

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• While I am speaking the opportunity is lost.

  Ovid

  Opportunity, Lost

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• Nothing is swifter than our years.

  Ovid

  Time, Years, Time Management

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• The burden becomes light that is shared by love.

  Ovid

  Love, Light, Burden

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• God himself helps those who dare.

  Ovid

  Helping, Self Help, Dare

  Ovid (1946). “Ovid: Metamorphoses”

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