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Ovid quotes - page 8
The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.
Ovid
Perfer et obdura, dolor hic tibi proderit olim. (Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.)
Ovid
Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.” "Be patient and tough; one day this pain will be useful to you.
Ovid
I am the poet of the poor, because I was poor when I loved; since I could not give gifts, I gave words.
Ovid
Omnia mutantur, nihil interit (everything changes, nothing perishes).
Ovid
Give me the waters of Lethe that numb the heart, if they exist, I will still not have the power to forget you.
Ovid
My soul would sing of metamorphoses. But since, o gods, you were the source of these bodies becoming other bodies, breathe your breath into my book of changes: may the song I sing be seamless as its way weaves from the world's beginning to our day.
Ovid
Say that I live, but in such wise that I would not live.
Ovid
We all conceal A god within us, we all deal With heaven direct, from whose high places we derive The inspiration by which we live.
Ovid
Gay was oft my song when I was gay, sad it is now that I am sad.
Ovid
Young love is errant, but it needs to get around; The time and practice make it strong and sound. That bull you fear, you petted when it wasn't big; What now you sleep beneath was once a twig. That little stream, in gaining waters as it goes, Grows stronger, till at last a river flows.
Ovid
Love yields to business. If you seek a way out of love, be busy; you'll be safe then.
Ovid
Resist beginnings; the remedy comes too late when the disease has gained strength by long delays.
Ovid
Ants never head for an empty granary: no friends gather round when your wealth is gone.
Ovid
A creature of a more exalted kind Was wanting yet, and then was Man designed; Conscious of thought, of more capacious breast, For empire formed, and fit to rule the rest.
Ovid
Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother tend, Man looks aloft, and with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies.
Ovid
No fairer law in all the land Than that death-dealers die by what they've planned.
Ovid
My son, I caution you to keep The middle way, for if your pinions dip Too low the waters may impede your flight; And if they soar too high the sun may scorch them. Fly midway.
Ovid
Seize Time; his swift foot can't be held.
Ovid
Our charms depart all on their own, so pluck the bloom. For if you don't, it meets a wasted doom.
Ovid
Leave her alone. A fallow field soon shows its worth, And rain is best absorbed by arid earth.
Ovid
Rage is for beasts, but shining peace for man.
Ovid
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