Ovid Quotes, Life Quotes, Success Quotes

Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships, the poor man everywhere lies low.

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My intention is to tell of bodies changed into new forms.

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You start in April and cross to the time of May One has you as it leaves, one as it comes Since the edges of these months are yours and defer To you, either of them suits your praises. The Circus continues and the theatre's lauded palm, Let this song, too, join the Circus spectacle.

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Pursuits become habits. [Lat., Abeunt studia in mores.]

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An injury may prove a blessing.

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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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Consider the misfortunes of others, and you will be the better able to bear your own.

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Treat a thousand dispositions in a thousand ways.

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Struggling over my fickle heart, love draws it now this way, and now hate that--but love, I think, is winning. I will hate, if I have strength; if not, I shall love unwilling.

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The love of fame puts spurs to the mind

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When the heart is sick it cannot bear the slightest annoyance.

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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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Forbear to lay the guilt of a few on the many.

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If you would conquer Love, he must be fought At his first onslaught; sprinkle but a drop Of water, the new-kindled flame expires.

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Occupy yourself, and you will be out of harm's way.

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Seeking is all very well, but holding requires greater talent: Seeking involves some luck; now the demand is for skill.

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

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What one beholds of a woman is the least part of her.

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Perfer et obdura; dolor hic tibi proderit olim. Have patience and endure; this unhappiness will one day be beneficial.

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Only the mind cannot be sent into exile.

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