Ovid Quotes, Character Quotes, Looks Quotes

When the character's right, looks are a greater delight.

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We are always striving for things forbidden, and coveting those denied us.

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Fair peace is becoming to men; fierce anger belongs to beasts.

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Ah me! love can not be cured by herbs.

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Tears are at times as eloquent as words. [Weeping hath a voice.]

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Those dreams are true which we have in the morning, as the lamp begins to flicker. [Lat., Namque sub Aurora jam dormitante lucerna Sommia quo cerni tempore vera solent.]

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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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Today is truly the Golden Age: gold buys hornor, gold procures love

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

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Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.

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In an easy cause any man may be eloquent.

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There is no excellence uncoupled with difficulties.

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There is a good deal in a man's mode of eating.

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Brass shines with constant usage, a beautiful dress needs wearing,Leave a house empty, it rots.

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From high Meonia's rocky shores I came, Of poor decsent, Acoetes is my name, My sire was measly born: no oxen ploughed, His fruitful fields, nor in his pastures lowed, His whole estate within the waters lay' With lines and hooks he caught the finny prey; His art was all his livelehood, which he Thus with his dying lips bequeathed to me: In streams, my boy, and rivers take thy chance; There swims', said he, Thy whole inheritance.

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If he should love deny him what he loves!

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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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When worse may yet befall, there's room for prayer, But when our fortune's at its lowest ebb, We trample fear beneath our feet, and live Without a fear of evil yet to come.

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The art of medicine in the season lies: Wine given in season oft will benefit, Which out of season injures.

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There is no small pleasure in pure water.

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