Ovid Quotes

The gods have their own rules.

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It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are.

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The earth yields up her stores, of every ill The instigators; iron, foe to man, And gold, than iron deadlier.

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In an easy matter. Anybody can be eloquent.

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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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With wavering steps does fickle fortune stray, Nowhere she finds a firm and fixed abode; But now all smiles, and now again all frowns, She's constant only in inconstancy.

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Ants do no bend their ways to empty barns, so no friend will visit the place of departed wealth. [Lat., Horrea formicae tendunt ad inania nunquam Nullus ad amissas ibit amicus opes.]

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Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe.

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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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Riches, the incentives to evil, are dug out of the earth.

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Let love steal in disguised as friendship.

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The result justifies the deed.

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Let ancient times delight other folk, I rejoice that I was not born till now.

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Love is a believing creature.

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There is a certain pleasure in weeping; grief finds in tears both a satisfaction and a cure.

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To dismiss a guest is a more ungracious act than not to admit him at all.

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When disposition wins us, the features please.

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If he should love deny him what he loves!

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Things which of themselves avail nothing, when united become powerful.

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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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