Ovid Quotes, Simplicity Quotes, Swim Quotes

He is a foolish swimmer who swims against the stream, when he might take the current sideways.

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What makes men indifferent to their wives is that they can see them when they please.

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What is allowed us is disagreeable, what is denied us causes us intense desire.

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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

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Only the mind cannot be sent into exile.

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There is no pleasure pure and simple, and some care always comes to mar our joys.

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The act is judged of by the event.

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Today is truly the Golden Age: gold buys hornor, gold procures love

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My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope. [Lat., Et res non semper, spes mihi semper adest.]

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Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop

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The sea's vast depths lie open to the fish; Wherever the breezes blow the bird may fly; So to the brave man every land's a home.

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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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Heavens! what thick darkness pervades the minds of men. [Lat., Pro superi! quantum mortalia pectora caecae, Noctis habent.]

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As long as you are lucky, you will have many friends; if cloudy times appear, you will be alone. -Donec eris felix, multos numerabis amicos; tempora si fuerint nubila, solus eris

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It is ill to marry in the month of May.

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The mind ill at ease, the body suffers also.

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A pleasing countenance is no light advantage.

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What is harder than stone? What more soft than water? Nevertheless hard though the rock be, it is hollowed by the wave.

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I flee who chases me and chase who flees me.

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Money nowadays is money; money brings office; money gains friends; everywhere the poor man is down. [Lat., In pretio pretium nunc est; dat census honores, Census amicitias; pauper ubique jacet.]

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