Ovid Quotes

Imperceptibly the hours glide on, and beguile us as they pass.

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In our play we reveal what kind of people we are.

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There are as many characters in men As there are shapes in nature.

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The spirits run riot in youth.

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Indulgent gods, grant me to sin once with impunity. That is sufficient. Let a second offence bear its punishment.

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Nothing is so high and above all danger that is not below and in the power of God. [Lat., Nihil ita sublime est, supraque pericula tendit Non sit ut inferius suppositumque deo.]

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Passion persuades me one way, reason another. I see the better and approve it, but I follow the worse.

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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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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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Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.

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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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Let the poor man mind his tongue

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Where belief is painful we are slow to believe.

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Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.

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Though strength be wanting, the will to action Merits praise.

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If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

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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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Burdens become light when cheerfully borne.

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Fas est ab hoste doceri. One should learn even from one's enemies.

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Nothing is more useful to man that those arts which have no utility.

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