Ovid Quotes, Sweet Quotes, Bitter Quotes

There is no such thing as pure, unalloyed pleasure; some bitter ever mingles with the sweet.

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The love of fame usually spurs on the mind. [Lat., Ingenio stimulos subdere fama solet.]

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The dove, O hawk, that has once been wounded by thy talons, is frightened by the least movement of a wing. [Lat., Terretur minimo pennae stridore columba Unguibus, accipiter, saucia facta tuis.]

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Nothing is more useful to man that those arts which have no utility.

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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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While I am speaking the opportunity is lost.

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Alas! How difficult it is to prevent the countenance from betraying guilt!

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Wine, not too much, inspires and make the mind,to the soft joys of Venus strong inclined,which, buried in excess, unapt to love,stupidly lies and knows not hom to move

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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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Lovers remember everything. [Lat., Meminerunt omnia amantes.]

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If thou wishest to put an end to love, attend to business (love yields to employment); then thou wilt be safe. [Lat., Qui finem quaeris amoris, (Cedit amor rebus) res age; tutus eris.]

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I could not possibly count the gold-digging ruses of women, Not if I had ten mouths, not if I had ten tongues.

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Jupiter has no leisure to attend to little things.

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To wish is of little account; to succeed you must earnestly desire; and this desire must shorten thy sleep.

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I see and praise what is better, but follow what is worse.

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Love is a believing creature.

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Excessive love in loathing ever ends.

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He who sins easily, sins less. The very power Renders less vigorous the roots of evil.

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The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.

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Bear patiently with a rival.

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