Top 721 Quotes & Sayings by Ovid - Page 2

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Last updated on April 14, 2025.

Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.

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You will go most safely in the middle.

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Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.

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Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves.

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

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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

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No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.

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The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late.

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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

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Daring is not safe against daring men.

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I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement.

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Majesty and love do not consort well together, nor do they dwell in the same place.

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Envy aims very high.

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He whom all hate all wish to see destroyed.

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Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery.

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He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.

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Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.

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What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

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The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.

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Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.

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Time, motion and wine cause sleep.

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All things can corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

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Love is a thing that is full of cares and fears.

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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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Either do not attempt at all, or go through with it.

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Little things please little minds.

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What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless.

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Use the occasion, for it passes swiftly.

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Ah me! Love can not be cured by herbs.

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The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal.

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Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.

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There is a god within us.

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Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

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Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.

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Time is the devourer of all things.

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The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.

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

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How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

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Love is full of anxious fears.

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People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.

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The gods behold all righteous actions.

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The vulgar crowd values friends according to their usefulness.

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Let what is irksome become habitual, no more will it trouble you.

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A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.

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Tears at times have the weight of speech.

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All love is vanquished by a succeeding love.

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An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

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