Ovid Quotes, Excellence Quotes

There is no excellence uncoupled with difficulties.

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Thanks are justly due for things got without purchase. [Lat., Gratia pro rebus merito debetur inemtis.]

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He, who is not prepared today, will be less so tomorrow.

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Venus favors the bold.

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Money nowadays is money; money brings office; money gains friends; everywhere the poor man is down. [Lat., In pretio pretium nunc est; dat census honores, Census amicitias; pauper ubique jacet.]

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He lives well who lives retired, and keeps His wants within the limits of his means.

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Even pleasure cloys without variety.

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Beauty is a frail good.

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Skill makes love unending.

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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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Tis you, alone, can save, or give my doom.

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To feel our ills is one thing, but to cure them is another.

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The wounded limb shrinks from the slightest touch; and a slight shadow alarms the nervous. [Lat., Membra reformidant mollem quoque saucia tactum: Vanaque sollicitis incutit umbra metum.]

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Our advantages fly away without aid. Pluck the flower. [Lat., Nostra sine auxilio fugiunt bona. Carpite florem.]

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As the mind of each man is conscious of good or evil, so does he conceive within his breast hope or fear, according to his actions.

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What is allowed us is disagreeable, what is denied us causes us intense desire.

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Work while your strength and years permit you; crooked age will by-and-by come upon you with silent foot.

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Even the gods are moved by the voice of entreaty.

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Beneath the sun's rays our shadow is our comrade; When clouds obscure the sun our shadow flees. So Fortune's smiles the fickle crowd pursues, But swift is gone whenever she veils her face.

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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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