Ovid Quotes, Latin Quotes, Matter Quotes

The workmanship was better than the subject matter.

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The cause is hidden; the effect is visible to all.

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What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps with it alone, she lives.

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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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He whom all hate all wish to see destroyed.

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Heaven rewards the pious; those who cherish the gods Themselves are cherished.

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The swallow is not ensnared by men because of its gentle nature. [Lat., At caret insidiis hominum, quia mitis, hirundo.]

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Love is too prone to trust. Would I could think My charges false and all too rashly made.

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Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.

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

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Giving calls for genius.

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Tis not always in a physician's power to cure the sick; at times the disease is stronger than trained art.

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I see and approve better things, but follow worse.

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Sleep, rest of nature, O sleep, most gentle of the divinities, peace of the soul, thou at whose presence care disappears, who soothest hearts wearied with daily employments, and makest them strong again for labour!

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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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Thy destiny is only that of man, but thy aspirations may be those of a god.

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Meet the disorder in the outset, the medicine may be too late, when the disease has gained ground through delay.

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Art is most effective when concealed.

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Love fed fat soon turns to boredom.

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The raven once in snowy plumes was drest, White as the whitest dove's unsullied breast, Fair as the guardian of the Capitol, Soft as the swan; a large and lovely fowl His tongue, his prating tongue had changed him quite To sooty blackness from the purest white.

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