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Type: Poet Quotes Year of Birth: 43 BC Year of Death: 17 AD Find on Amazon: Ovid Related Authors: Ralph Waldo Emerson Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Samuel Butler Sophocles Alexander Pope Horace Kahlil Gibran |
A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
Ovid A man is sorry to be honest for nothing. Ovid A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow. Ovid A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward. Ovid Against the bold, daring is unsafe. Ovid Alas! how difficult it is not to betray one's guilt by one's looks. Ovid All love is vanquished by a succeeding love. Ovid All things can corrupt when minds are prone to evil. Ovid An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand. Ovid An evil life is a kind of death. Ovid Art lies by its own artifice. Ovid At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time. Ovid Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good. Ovid Bear patiently with a rival. Ovid Beauty is a fragile gift. Ovid Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair. Ovid Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish. Ovid Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body. Ovid 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. Ovid Daring is not safe against daring men. Ovid Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay. Ovid Either do not attempt at all, or go through with it. Ovid Endure and persist, this pain will turn good by and by. Ovid Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by. Ovid Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality. Ovid Envy aims very high. Ovid Every lover is a soldier. Ovid Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish. Ovid Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned. Ovid Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour. Ovid Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts. Ovid First appearance deceives many. Ovid First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, "I believe," three times. Ovid Fortune and love favor the brave. Ovid Give way to your opponent; thus will you gain the crown of victory. Ovid Habits change into character. Ovid Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love. Ovid Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all. Ovid He who can believe himself well, will be well. Ovid He who says o'er much I love not is in love. Ovid He who would not be idle, let him fall in love. Ovid He whom all hate all wish to see destroyed. Ovid How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man. Ovid I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement. Ovid If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love. Ovid If you want to be loved, be lovable. Ovid In an easy matter. Anybody can be eloquent. Ovid In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are. Ovid It is annoying to be honest to no purpose. Ovid It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are. Ovid It is the poor man who'll ever count his flock. Ovid Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers. Ovid 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. Ovid Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these. Ovid Let what is irksome become habitual, no more will it trouble you. Ovid Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be fish. Ovid Like fragile ice anger passes away in time. Ovid Little things please little minds. Ovid Love and dignity cannot share the same abode. Ovid Love is a kind of warfare. Ovid Love is a thing that is full of cares and fears. Ovid Love is full of anxious fears. Ovid Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish. Ovid Majesty and love do not consort well together, nor do they dwell in the same place. Ovid Make the workmanship surpass the materials. Ovid Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them. Ovid Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it. Ovid Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward. Ovid Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear. Ovid Most safely shall you tread the middle path. Ovid My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope. Ovid Neglect of appearance becomes men. Ovid Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again. Ovid 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. Ovid Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel. Ovid Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit. Ovid Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships; the poor man everywhere lies low. Ovid Often they benefit who suffer wrong. Ovid People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude. Ovid Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength. Ovid Take rest; a field that has rested gives a beautiful crop. Ovid Tears at times have the weight of speech. Ovid The bold adventurer succeeds the best. Ovid The burden which is well borne becomes light. Ovid The cause is hidden; the effect is visible to all. Ovid The gods behold all righteous actions. Ovid The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late. Ovid The heavier crop is ever in others' fields. Ovid The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool. Ovid The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean. Ovid The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea. Ovid The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal. Ovid The prayers of cowards fortune spurns. Ovid The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses. Ovid The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged. Ovid The vulgar crowd values friends according to their usefulness. Ovid The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting. Ovid There is a god within us. Ovid There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled. Ovid There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it. Ovid Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul. Ovid Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves. Ovid Time is generally the best doctor. Ovid Time is the devourer of all things. Ovid Time, motion and wine cause sleep. Ovid Time, the devourer of all things. Ovid To feel our ills is one thing, but to cure them is another. Ovid Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason. Ovid Use the occasion, for it passes swiftly. Ovid Venus favors the bold. Ovid We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us. Ovid What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless. Ovid What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps; with it alone, she lives. Ovid What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct. Ovid What is without periods of rest will not endure. Ovid What makes men indifferent to their wives is that they can see them when they please. Ovid Where belief is painful we are slow to believe. Ovid Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked. Ovid Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft. Ovid Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with. Ovid You can learn from anyone even your enemy. Ovid You will go most safely in the middle. Ovid |
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