Ovid Quotes, Kindness Quotes, Mind Quotes

It's a kindness that the mind can go where it wishes.

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A broken fortune is like a falling column; the lower it sinks, the greater weight it has to sustain.

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There is no need of words; believe facts. [Lat., Non opus est verbis, credite rebus.]

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The wit of man has devised cruel statutes, And nature oft permits what is by law forbid.

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It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

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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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Face troubles from their birth, for 'tis too late to cure When long delay has given the evil strength. Haste then; postpone not to the coming hour: tomorrow He'll be less ready who's not ready now.

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In the make-up of human beings, intelligence counts for more than our hands, and that is our true strength.

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Fair peace is becoming to men; fierce anger belongs to beasts.

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Lente, lente currite, noctis equi. Translation: Run slowly, slowly, horses of the night.

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We are slow to believe that which if believed would hurt our feelings.

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

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The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.

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

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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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What we call birth Is but a beginning to be something else Than what we were before; and when we cease To be that something, then we call it death.

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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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This also, that I live, I consider a gift of God.

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What makes men indifferent to their wives is that they can see them when they please.

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You who seek an end of love, love yields to business: be busy, and you will be safe.

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