Ovid Quotes

To dismiss a guest is a more ungracious act than not to admit him at all.

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Wind feeds the fire, and wind extinguishes: The flames are nourished by a gentle breeze, Yet, if it stronger grows, they sink and die.

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Often they benefit who suffer wrong.

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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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The result proves the wisdom of the act.

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

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Resist beginnings: it is too late to employ medicine when the evil has grown strong by inveterate habit.

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I grabbed a pile of dust, and holding it up, foolishly asked for as many birthdays as the grains of dust, I forgot to ask that they be years of youth.

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A good disposition is a virtue in itself, and it is lasting; the burden of the years cannot depress it, and love that is founded on it endures to the end.

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If thou wouldst marry wisely, marry thine equal.

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Pluck with quick hand the fruit that passes.

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Heavens! what thick darkness pervades the minds of men. [Lat., Pro superi! quantum mortalia pectora caecae, Noctis habent.]

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There is something in omens.

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What we call birth Is but a beginning to be something else Than what we were before; and when we cease To be that something, then we call it death.

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Time is a stream which glides smoothly on and is past before we know.

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You put aside the work that's done, and seek some work to do.

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Let the poor man mind his tongue

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What makes men indifferent to their wives is that they can see them when they please.

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Thus all things altered. Nothing dies. And here and there the unbodied spirit flies.

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Dripping water hollows out a stone

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