Ovid Quotes, Thinking Quotes, Opposites Quotes

Some people think that because they do the opposite of what they are asked to do, they have initiative

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It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

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Yield to him who opposes you; by yielding you conquer.

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We are all bound thither; we are hastening to the same common goal. Black death calls all things under the sway of its laws. [Lat., Tendimus huc omnes; metam properamus ad unam. Omnia sub leges mors vocat atra suas.]

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It is prudence that first forsakes the wretched.

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A boar is often held by a not-so-large dog.

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Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

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The judge's duty is to inquire about the time, as well as the facts.

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

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A bitter drug oft brings relief.

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In the make-up of human beings, intelligence counts for more than our hands, and that is our true strength.

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What is without periods of rest will not endure.

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Against the bold, daring is unsafe.

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Women's words are as light as the doomed leaves whirling in autumn, Easily swept by the wind, easily drowned by the wave.

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Gutta cavat lapidem, non vi sed saepe cadendo. (The drop excavates the stone, not with force but by falling often.)

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Friendship is but a name, faith is an empty name. Alas, it is not safe to praise to a friend the object of your love; as soon as he believes your praises, he slips into your place.

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There is no brotherhood between love and dignity, Nor can they share the same abode.

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Gifts, believe me, captivate both men and Gods, Jupiter himself was won over and appeased by gifts.

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Virtue and vice, evil and good, are siblings, or next-door neighbors, Easy to make mistakes, hard to tell them apart.

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