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Ovid
Poet
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It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are.
Ovid,
Poet
#Gods
Little things please little minds.
Ovid,
Poet
An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.
Ovid,
Poet
#Medicine
Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.
Ovid,
Poet
#Darkness
#Woman
#Night
#Fault
Beauty is a fragile gift.
Ovid,
Poet
#Beauty
Bear patiently with a rival.
Ovid,
Poet
Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.
Ovid,
Poet
#Will
#Day
#Sorrow
At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.
Ovid,
Poet
#Time
#Folly
#Delay
First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, "I believe," three times.
Ovid,
Poet
#First
An evil life is a kind of death.
Ovid,
Poet
#Life
#Death
#Evil
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,
Poet
#Difference
#Lying
#Cunning
#Knavery
All things can corrupt when minds are prone to evil.
Ovid,
Poet
#Evil
All love is vanquished by a succeeding love.
Ovid,
Poet
#Love
Alas! how difficult it is not to betray one's guilt by one's looks.
Ovid,
Poet
#Guilt
Ah me! love can not be cured by herbs.
Ovid,
Poet
#Love
Against the bold, daring is unsafe.
Ovid,
Poet
A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.
Ovid,
Poet
#Quick
#Reward
Art lies by its own artifice.
Ovid,
Poet
#Art
#Lies
Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.
Ovid,
Poet
#Death
#Delay
#Punishment
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,
Poet
#Right
#Death
#Man
#Idea
Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.
Ovid,
Poet
Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned.
Ovid,
Poet
#Promises
Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.
Ovid,
Poet
#Man
#Wishes
Every lover is a soldier.
Ovid,
Poet
Envy aims very high.
Ovid,
Poet
#Envy
Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.
Ovid,
Poet
#Chance
#Will
#Fish
Either do not attempt at all, or go through with it.
Ovid,
Poet
Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.
Ovid,
Poet
#Strength
#Body
#Courage
Majesty and love do not consort well together, nor do they dwell in the same place.
Ovid,
Poet
#Love
Daring is not safe against daring men.
Ovid,
Poet
#Men
Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.
Ovid,
Poet
#Character
#Study
#Liberal
A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
Ovid,
Poet
#Horses
A man is sorry to be honest for nothing.
Ovid,
Poet
#Nothing
#Man
First appearance deceives many.
Ovid,
Poet
#First
#Appearance
Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.
Ovid,
Poet
#Will
#Pain
The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.
Ovid,
Poet
#Oil
The bold adventurer succeeds the best.
Ovid,
Poet
The burden which is well borne becomes light.
Ovid,
Poet
#Light
#Burden
The cause is hidden; the effect is visible to all.
Ovid,
Poet
#Cause
#Effect
The gods behold all righteous actions.
Ovid,
Poet
#Actions
#Gods
The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late.
Ovid,
Poet
#People
#State
Make the workmanship surpass the materials.
Ovid,
Poet
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,
Poet
#Will
#May
#Man
#Fire
Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength.
Ovid,
Poet
#Strength
#Grief
The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.
Ovid,
Poet
#Man
#Sea
#Shipwreck
The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal.
Ovid,
Poet
#Crime
#May
The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.
Ovid,
Poet
#Fortune
#Cowards
The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.
Ovid,
Poet
#Roses
The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.
Ovid,
Poet
#Will
#Race
The vulgar crowd values friends according to their usefulness.
Ovid,
Poet
#Friends
#Usefulness
#Values
The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.
Ovid,
Poet
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,
Poet
#Man
#Virtue
#Value
#Worth
#Integrity
Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.
Ovid,
Poet
#Women
Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.
Ovid,
Poet
#Health
#Medicine
Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
Ovid,
Poet
#Men
#Value
#Reward
#Deed
Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.
Ovid,
Poet
#Hope
#Fear
Most safely shall you tread the middle path.
Ovid,
Poet
My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.
Ovid,
Poet
#Hope
Tears at times have the weight of speech.
Ovid,
Poet
#Speech
#Weight
#Tears
Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.
Ovid,
Poet
#Vision
#Truth
#Beauty
#Reality
Take rest; a field that has rested gives a beautiful crop.
Ovid,
Poet
#Rest
Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
Ovid,
Poet
Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.
Ovid,
Poet
#Nothing
#Habit
#Custom
Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships; the poor man everywhere lies low.
Ovid,
Poet
#Nothing
#Man
#Poor
#Money
#Lies
#Fortune
Often they benefit who suffer wrong.
Ovid,
Poet
#Wrong
People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.
Ovid,
Poet
#People
#Confidence
The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.
Ovid,
Poet
#Will
#Ability
#May
Neglect of appearance becomes men.
Ovid,
Poet
#Men
#Appearance
#Neglect
Use the occasion, for it passes swiftly.
Ovid,
Poet
Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason.
Ovid,
Poet
#Reason
#Treason
To feel our ills is one thing, but to cure them is another.
Ovid,
Poet
#Cure
Time, the devourer of all things.
Ovid,
Poet
#Time
Time, motion and wine cause sleep.
Ovid,
Poet
#Time
#Cause
#Sleep
#Wine
Time is the devourer of all things.
Ovid,
Poet
#Time
Time is generally the best doctor.
Ovid,
Poet
#Time
Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves.
Ovid,
Poet
#Body
#Water
There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid,
Poet
#Pleasure
#Anxiety
Venus favors the bold.
Ovid,
Poet
#Favors
There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.
Ovid,
Poet
#Alcohol
Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.
Ovid,
Poet
#Eyes
#Nature
#Soul
#Sight
You can learn from anyone even your enemy.
Ovid,
Poet
#Enemy
We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.
Ovid,
Poet
#Forbidden
You will go most safely in the middle.
Ovid,
Poet
#Will
There is a god within us.
Ovid,
Poet
#God
Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.
Ovid,
Poet
#Nothing
Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.
Ovid,
Poet
#Heart
#Misfortune
Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.
Ovid,
Poet
#Women
What makes men indifferent to their wives is that they can see them when they please.
Ovid,
Poet
#Men
#Wives
What is without periods of rest will not endure.
Ovid,
Poet
#Will
#Rest
What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.
Ovid,
Poet
#Now
#Reason
#Instinct
What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps; with it alone, she lives.
Ovid,
Poet
#Love
#Woman
Where belief is painful we are slow to believe.
Ovid,
Poet
#Belief
What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless.
Ovid,
Poet
#Pain
#Grief
He who says o'er much I love not is in love.
Ovid,
Poet
#Love
If you want to be loved, be lovable.
Ovid,
Poet
#Want
If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.
Ovid,
Poet
#Love
I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement.
Ovid,
Poet
#Achievement
#Worth
How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.
Ovid,
Poet
#Man
#Promise
In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are.
Ovid,
Poet
#People
#Leisure
He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.
Ovid,
Poet
#Love
It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.
Ovid,
Poet
#Purpose
He who can believe himself well, will be well.
Ovid,
Poet
#Will
Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.
Ovid,
Poet
#Hurt
#Man
#Mind
Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.
Ovid,
Poet
#Love
Habits change into character.
Ovid,
Poet
#Character
#Change
#Habits
Give way to your opponent; thus will you gain the crown of victory.
Ovid,
Poet
#Will
#Gain
#Victory
Fortune and love favor the brave.
Ovid,
Poet
#Love
#Fortune
He whom all hate all wish to see destroyed.
Ovid,
Poet
#Hate
Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be fish.
Ovid,
Poet
#Will
#Fish
Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish.
Ovid,
Poet
#Will
#Luck
#Fish
Love is full of anxious fears.
Ovid,
Poet
#Love
Love is a thing that is full of cares and fears.
Ovid,
Poet
#Love
Love is a kind of warfare.
Ovid,
Poet
#Love
Love is a credulous thing.
Ovid,
Poet
#Love
Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.
Ovid,
Poet
#Love
#Dignity
In an easy matter. Anybody can be eloquent.
Ovid,
Poet
Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.
Ovid,
Poet
#Time
#Anger
Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts.
Ovid,
Poet
#Peace
#Men
#Anger
Let what is irksome become habitual, no more will it trouble you.
Ovid,
Poet
#Will
#Trouble
Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.
Ovid,
Poet
#Praise
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,
Poet
#Men
#Friend
#Absence
Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.
Ovid,
Poet
#Smiles
#Lovers
It is the poor man who'll ever count his flock.
Ovid,
Poet
#Man
#Poor