Ovid Quotes, Death Quotes

Wherever I look there is nothing but the image of death.

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The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal.

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Skilled in every trick, a worthy heir of his paternal craft, he would make black look like white, and white look black. [Lat., Furtum ingeniosus ad omne, Qui facere assueret, patriae non degener artis, Candida de nigris, et de candentibus atra.]

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Against the bold, daring is unsafe.

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The wild boar is often held by a small dog. [Lat., A cane non magno saepe tenetur aper.]

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There is a deity within us who breathes that divine fire by which we are animated.

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That you may be beloved, be amiable.

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The mind is sicker than the sick body; in contemplation of its sufferings it becomes hopeless. [Lat., Corpore sed mens est aegro magis aegra; malique In circumspectu stat sine fine sui.]

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Take away leisure and Cupid's bow is broken

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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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Pluck with quick hand the fruit that passes.

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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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Neglect of appearance becomes men.

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When disposition wins us, the features please.

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Sleep, rest of nature, O sleep, most gentle of the divinities, peace of the soul, thou at whose presence care disappears, who soothest hearts wearied with daily employments, and makest them strong again for labour!

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It is but a small merit to observe silence, but it is a grave fault to speak of matters on which we should be silent.

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If it were in my power, I would be wiser; but a newly felt power carries me off in spite of myself; love leads me one way, my understanding another.

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Nor is there any law more just, than that he who has plotted death shall perish by his own plot.

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The poet's labors are a work of joy, and require peace of mind.

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Calumny ever pursues the great, even as the winds hurl themselves on high places.

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