Ovid Quotes, Opportunity Quotes

While I am speaking the opportunity is lost.

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All-devouring time, envious age, Nought can escape you, and by slow degrees, Worn by your teeth, all things will lingering die.

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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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If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

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For in this strange anatomy we wear, the head has greater powers than the hand; the spirit, heart, and mind are over all.

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These are the evils which result from gossiping habits.

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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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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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Tis base to plead the unhappy prisoner's cause, With eloquence that's bought.

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

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Nothing aids which may not also injure us. Fire serves us well, but he who plots to burn His neighbor's roof arms his hands with fire.

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Friendship is but a name; fidelity but an empty name.

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There is a God within us and intercourse with heaven. [Lat., Est deus in nobis; et sunt commercia coeli.]

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Heaven rewards the pious; those who cherish the gods Themselves are cherished.

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Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves.

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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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God gave man an upright countenance to survey the heavens, and to look upward to the stars.

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How little you know about the age you live in if you think that honey is sweeter than cash in hand

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I would that you were either less beautiful, or less corrupt. Such perfect beauty does not suit such imperfect morals. [Lat., Aut formosa fores minus, aut minus improba vellem. Non facit ad mores tam bona forma malos.]

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All things change, nothing perishes.

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