Ovid Quotes
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Love conquers all things; let us own her dominion.
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Every one who repeats it adds something to the scandal. [The rolling snow-ball.]
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As many as the shells that are on the shore, so many are the pains of love; the darts that wound are steeped in much poison.
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The mind is sicker than the sick body; in contemplation of its sufferings it becomes hopeless. [Lat., Corpore sed mens est aegro magis aegra; malique In circumspectu stat sine fine sui.]
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I have never injured anybody with a mordant poem; my verse contains charges against nobody. Ingenuous, I have shunned wit steeped in venom--not a letter of mine is dipped in poisonous jest.
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The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.
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They come to see, they come that they themselves may be seen. [Lat., Spectatum veniunt, veniunt spectentur ut ipse.]
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The mind that's conscious of its rectitude, Laughs at the lies of rumor.
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Sickness seizes the body from bad ventilation.
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The applause and the favour of our fellow-men Fan even a spark of genius to a flame.
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Wine stimulates the mind and makes it quick with heat; care flees and is dissolved in much drink.
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We can learn even from our enemies.
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The rest of the crowd were friends of my fortune, not of me. [Lat., Caetera fortunae, non mea, turba fuit.]
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O ye gods! what thick encircling darkness blinds the minds of men!
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What is more useful than fire? Yet if any one prepares to burn a house, it is with fire that he arms his daring hands.
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You who seek an end of love, love yields to business: be busy, and you will be safe.
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I too am not powerless, and my weapons strike hard.
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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.
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Love is no assignment for cowards.
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Suppressed pain chokes us; in our breasts It surges, adding ever to its strength.
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Envy assails the noblest: the winds howl around the highest peaks.
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You will go most safely in the middle.
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It's right to learn, even from the enemy.
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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.
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Majesty and love do not well agree, nor do they live together.
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The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.
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The mind ill at ease, the body suffers also.
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If he did not succeed, he at least failed in a glorious undertaking.
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Pleasure is sweetest when 'tis paid for by another's pain.
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The battle is over when the foe has fallen.
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