Ovid Quotes, Death Quotes, New Beginnings Quotes

Nothing retains its form; new shapes from old. Nature, the great inventor, ceaselessly contrives. In all creation, be assured, there is no death - no death, but only change and innovation; what we men call birth is but a different new beginning; death is but to cease to be the same. Perhaps this may have moved to that, and that to this, yet still the sum of things remains the same.

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This letter gives me a tongue; and were I not allowed to write, I should be dumb. [Lat., Praebet mihi littera linguam: Et, si non liceat scribere, mutus ero.]

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We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.

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Who gives to Aristaeus honey; Or wine to Bacchus, or Triptolemus Earth's fruits, or apples to Alcinous?

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That tuneful nymph, the babbling Echo.

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Tis base to plead the unhappy prisoner's cause, With eloquence that's bought.

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The spirits run riot in youth.

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What is allowed us is disagreeable, what is denied us causes us intense desire.

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Love is born of idleness and, once born, by idleness is fostered.

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The deeds of men never escape the gods. [Lat., Acta deos nunquam mortalia fallunt.]

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Every one who repeats it adds something to the scandal. [The rolling snow-ball.]

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Ah me! love can not be cured by herbs. [Lat., Hei mihi! quod nullis amor est medicabilis herbis.]

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Let love steal in disguised as friendship.

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

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That, which has not its alternation of rest, will not last long.

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The workmanship was better than the subject matter.

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Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery.

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Beneath the sun's rays our shadow is our comrade; When clouds obscure the sun our shadow flees. So Fortune's smiles the fickle crowd pursues, But swift is gone whenever she veils her face.

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We two [Deucalion and Pyrrha, after the deluge] form a multitude. [Lat., Nos duo turba sumus.]

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Pleasure is sweetest when 'tis paid for by another's pain.

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