Ovid Quotes, Love Quotes, Sports Quotes

Ovid lies here, the poet, skilled in love's gentle sport; By his own talents he worked his undoing. Oh, you who pass by, if ever you have loved, Think it not a burden to wish him calm repose.

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Right it is to be taught even by the enemy.

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Wine stimulates the mind and makes it quick with heat; care flees and is dissolved in much drink.

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Often they benefit who suffer wrong.

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Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength.

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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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The ungovernable passion for wealth. [Lat., Opum furiata cupido.]

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The raven once in snowy plumes was drest, White as the whitest dove's unsullied breast, Fair as the guardian of the Capitol, Soft as the swan; a large and lovely fowl His tongue, his prating tongue had changed him quite To sooty blackness from the purest white.

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An injury may prove a blessing.

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

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"Gutta cavat lapidem." (Dripping water carves a stone.)

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Venus favors the bold.

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Nothing retains its form; new shapes from old. Nature, the great inventor, ceaselessly contrives. In all creation, be assured, there is no death - no death, but only change and innovation; what we men call birth is but a different new beginning; death is but to cease to be the same. Perhaps this may have moved to that, and that to this, yet still the sum of things remains the same.

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Presents, believe me, seduce both men and gods.

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What is harder than stone? What more soft than water? Nevertheless hard though the rock be, it is hollowed by the wave.

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If the subject's easy we may all be wise; What stands unfirm, the smallest force overthrows.

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Giving calls for genius.

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

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Pluck with quick hand the fruit that passes.

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The art of medicine in the season lies: Wine given in season oft will benefit, Which out of season injures.

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