Ovid Quotes, Granted Quotes, Pleasure Quotes

The pleasure that is granted to me from a sense of duty ceases to be a pleasure at all.

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The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late.

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Adde, quod ingénues didicisse fideliter artes Emollit mores, nec sinit esse fervos. To be instructed in the arts, softens the manners and makes men gentle.

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When the roses are gone, nothing is left but the thorn.

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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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Live without envy, spend your peaceful years Unknown to fame, and choose your peers for friends.

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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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There is a certain pleasure in weeping.

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Hastiness is the beginning of wrath, and its end repentance.

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Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses.

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This letter gives me a tongue; and were I not allowed to write, I should be dumb. [Lat., Praebet mihi littera linguam: Et, si non liceat scribere, mutus ero.]

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The workmanship was better than the subject matter.

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Excessive love in loathing ever ends.

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We two are to ourselves a crowd.

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It's useful that there should be Gods, so let's believe there are.

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Let what is irksome become habitual, no more will it trouble you.

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Tags : Ovid Quotes , Routine Quotes , Trouble Quotes

Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.

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The glow of inspiration warms us; this holy rapture springs from the seeds of the Divine mind sown in man.

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Tags : Ovid Quotes , Spring Quotes , Inspiration Quotes

Rest strengthens the body, the mind too is thus supported; but unremitting toil destroys both.

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Be bold, take courage... and be strong of soul

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Tags : Ovid Quotes , Strong Quotes