Ovid Quotes

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A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.

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A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.

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First appearance deceives many.

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Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.

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Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him, Easy-going enough once you acknowledge his power.

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The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late.

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Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.

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Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.

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Bear patiently with a rival.

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Envy aims very high.

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Art lies by its own artifice.

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Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.

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Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

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Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.

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Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.

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People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.

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Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships; the poor man everywhere lies low.

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Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.

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Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.

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Make the workmanship surpass the materials.

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In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are.

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It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

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I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement.

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Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned.

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Daring is not safe against daring men.

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Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.

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

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Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

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What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

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What is without periods of rest will not endure.

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