Ovid Quotes, Wise Quotes, Wisdom Quotes

If the subject's easy we may all be wise; What stands unfirm, the smallest force overthrows.

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Forbear to lay the guilt of a few on the many.

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My intention is to tell of bodies changed into new forms.

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We suffer by our proximity. [Who get a blow intended for another.]

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

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Beauty is a fragile gift.

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There is no excellence uncoupled with difficulties.

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And I will capture your minds with sweet novelty. [Lat., Dulcique animos novitate tenebo.]

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A red rose peeping through a white? Or else a cherry (double graced) Within a lily? Centre placed? Or ever marked the pretty beam, A strawberry shows, half drowned in cream? Or seen rich rubies blushing through A pure smooth pearl, and orient too? So like to this, nay all the rest, Is each neat niplet of her breast.

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Thanks are justly due for things got without purchase. [Lat., Gratia pro rebus merito debetur inemtis.]

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Either attempt it not, or succeed.

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Time, motion and wine cause sleep.

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Calumny ever pursues the great, even as the winds hurl themselves on high places.

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There are as many characters in men As there are shapes in nature.

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They come to see, they come that they themselves may be seen. [Lat., Spectatum veniunt, veniunt spectentur ut ipse.]

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When all the other animals, downcast looked upon the earth, he [Prometheus] gave a face raised on high to man, and commanded him to see the sky and raise his high eyes to the stars.

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Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.

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Love and dignity do not dwell together.

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Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.

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Where belief is painful we are slow to believe.

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