Ovid Quotes, Evil Quotes, Habit Quotes

These are the evils which result from gossiping habits.

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The wounded gladiator forswears all fighting, but soon forgetting his former wound resumes his arms.

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While I am speaking the opportunity is lost.

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We have ploughed the vast ocean in a fragile bark.

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May you live unenvied, and pass many pleasant years unknown to fame; and also have congenial friends. [Lat., Vive sine invidia, mollesque inglorius annos Exige; amicitias et tibi junge pares.]

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Nothing in the entire universe ever perishes, believe me, but things vary, and adopt a new form. The phrase being born is used for beginning to be something different from what one was before, while dying means ceasing to be the same. Though this thing may pass into that, and that into this, yet the sums of things remains unchanged.

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A pleasing countenance is no slight disadvantage. [Lat., Auxilium non leve vultus habet.]

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The mind, conscious of rectitude, laughed to scorn the falsehood of report.

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Alluring pleasure is said to have softened the savage dispositions (of early mankind). [Lat., Blanda truces animos fertur mollisse voluptas.]

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It is the mind that makes the man, and our vigour is in our immortal soul.

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Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.

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If you give up your quiet life, the bow of Cupid will lose its power.

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Thanks are justly due for boons unbought

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Pedigree and ancestry and what we ourselves have not achieved, I scarcely recognize as our own.

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Even the gods are moved by the voice of entreaty.

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I would that you were either less beautiful, or less corrupt. Such perfect beauty does not suit such imperfect morals. [Lat., Aut formosa fores minus, aut minus improba vellem. Non facit ad mores tam bona forma malos.]

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Those presents are the most acceptable which are enhanced by our regard for the donor.

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Struggling over my fickle heart, love draws it now this way, and now hate that--but love, I think, is winning. I will hate, if I have strength; if not, I shall love unwilling.

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In sweet water there is a pleasure ungrudged by anyone.

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Either you pursue or push, O Sisyphus, the stone destined to keep rolling. [Lat., Aut petis aut urgues ruiturum, Sisyphe, saxum.]

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