A Quote by Ovid

My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope. [Lat., Et res non semper, spes mihi semper adest.]

Ovid

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Always Hope Hopes Realized

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Ovid
Roman - Poet
43 BC - 17 AD

An honest man is always a child. [Lat., Semper bonus homo tiro est.]

Socrates

Something is always wanting to incomplete fortune. [Lat., Curtae nescio quid semper abest rei.]

Horace

Rulers always hate and suspect the next in succession. [Lat., Suspectum semper invisumque dominantibus qui proximus destinaretur.]

Tacitus

Semper Dowland semper dolens.

John Dowland

We should try to succeed by merit, not by favor. He who does well will always have patrons enough. [Lat., Virtute ambire oportet, non favitoribus. Sat habet favitorum semper, qui recte facit.]

Plautus

I am of the opinion which you have always held, that "viva voce" voting at elections is the best method. [Lat., Nam ego in ista sum sententia, qua te fuisse semper scio, nihil ut feurit in suffragiis voce melius.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Those gifts are ever the most acceptable which the giver makes precious. [Lat., Acceptissima semper munera sunt auctor quae pretiosa facit.]

Ovid

Nor does Apollo keep his bow continually drawn. [Lat., Neque semper arcum Tendit Apollo.]

Horace

A shifty, fickle object is woman, always. (Varium et mutabile semper femina.)

Virgil

Of two evils, the lesser must always be chosen De duobus malis, minus est semper eligendum

Thomas a Kempis

Who gives to friends so much from Fate secures, That is the only wealth for ever yours. [Lat., Extra fortunam est, quidquid donatur amicis; Quas dederis, selas semper habebis opes.]

Martial

And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances. [Lat., Et mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor.]

Horace

The hunter follows things which flee from him; he leaves them when they are taken; and ever seeks for that which is beyond what he has found. [Lat., Venator sequitur fugientia; capta relinquit; Semper et inventis ulteriora petit.]

Ovid

Man should ever look to his last day, and no one should be called happy before his funeral. [Lat., Ultima semper Expectanda dies homini est, dicique beatus Ante obitum nemo et suprema funera debet.]

Ovid

My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.

Ovid

To the sick, while there is life there is hope. [Lat., Aegroto dum anima est, spes est.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero