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Ovid Quotes
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Poet Quotes
Year of Birth:
43 BC
Year of Death:
17 AD
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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

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