Ovid Quotes, Excellence Quotes

There is no excellence uncoupled with difficulties.

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She that weds well will wisely match her love, Nor be below her husband nor above.

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In time the bull is brought to wear the yoke. [Lat., Tempore ruricolae patiens fit taurus aratri.]

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A safe pleasure is a tame pleasure.

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The god we now behold with opened eyes, A herd of spotted panthers round him lies In glaring forms; the grapy clusters spread On his fair brows, and dangle on his head.

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Ah me! how easy it is (how much all have experienced it) to indulge in brave words in another person's trouble. [Lat., Hei mihi, quam facile est (quamvis hic contigit omnes), Alterius lucta fortia verba loqui!]

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The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.

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The cause is hidden, but the result is known. [Lat., Causa latet: vis est notissima.]

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Birth and ancestry, and that which we have not ourselves achieved, we can scarcely call our own.

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There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.

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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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Let those who have deserved their punishment, bear it patiently. [Lat., Aequo animo poenam, qui meruere, ferant.]

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Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.

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The rest of the crowd were friends of my fortune, not of me. [Lat., Caetera fortunae, non mea, turba fuit.]

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The dove, O hawk, that has once been wounded by thy talons, is frightened by the least movement of a wing. [Lat., Terretur minimo pennae stridore columba Unguibus, accipiter, saucia facta tuis.]

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Dear to the heart of a girl is her own beauty and charm.

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The deeds of men never escape the gods. [Lat., Acta deos nunquam mortalia fallunt.]

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

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That tuneful nymph, the babbling Echo.

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Simplicity is a jewel rarely found.

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