Ovid Quotes, Death Quotes, Tears Quotes

We beg one hour of death, that neither she With widow's tears may live to bury me, Nor weeping I, with wither'd arms, may bear My breathless Baucis to the sepulchre.

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She only is chaste, who is chaste where there is no danger of detection: she who does not, because she may not, does.

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There is nothing in the whole world which abides. All things are in a state of ebb and flow, and every shadow passes away. Even time itself, like a river, is constantly gliding away .

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He who has lived obscurely and quietly has lived well.

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Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him, Easy-going enough once you acknowledge his power.

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It is the mind that makes the man, and our vigour is in our immortal soul.

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Pleasure is sweetest when 'tis paid for by another's pain.

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Chastity, once lost, cannot be recalled; it goes only once.

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You will hardly conquer, but conquer you must. [Lat., Male vincetis, sed vincite.]

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The most wretched fortune is safe; for there is no fear of anything worse. [Lat., Fortuna miserrima tuta est: Nam timor eventus deterioris abest.]

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A pleasing countenance is no light advantage.

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A red rose peeping through a white? Or else a cherry (double graced) Within a lily? Centre placed? Or ever marked the pretty beam, A strawberry shows, half drowned in cream? Or seen rich rubies blushing through A pure smooth pearl, and orient too? So like to this, nay all the rest, Is each neat niplet of her breast.

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If thou wouldst marry wisely, marry thine equal.

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The rose is often found near the nettle.

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We praise times past, while we times present use; Yet due the worship which to each we give.

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The whole earth is the brave man's country. [Lat., Omne solum forti patria est.]

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The mind ill at ease, the body suffers also.

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Every lover is a soldier.

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Thus all things altered. Nothing dies. And here and there the unbodied spirit flies.

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Deadly poisons are concealed under sweet honey.

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