Ovid quotes - page 6

Use the occasion, for it passes swiftly. (Ovid)
There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it. View quote
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You can learn from anyone even your enemy. View quote
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The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea. View quote
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Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit. View quote
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Little things please little minds. View quote
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Love and dignity cannot share the same abode. View quote
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Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves. View quote
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Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength. View quote
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Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good. View quote
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Endure and persist, this pain will turn good by and by. (Ovid)
Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour. View quote
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Give way to your opponent; thus will you gain the crown of victory. View quote
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Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers. View quote
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Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it. View quote
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Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them. View quote
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Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear. View quote
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Most safely shall you tread the middle path. View quote
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The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean. View quote
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Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul. View quote
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Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay. (Ovid)
Now are fields of corn where Troy once stood. View quote
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They bear punishment with equanimity who have earned it. View quote
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Jupiter from above laughs at lovers' perjuries. View quote
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Chaos, a rough and unordered mass. View quote
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