Ovid
Quotes by Ovid
What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps with it alone, she lives.
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Fair peace becomes men ferocious anger belongs to beasts.
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Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.
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Art lies by its own artifice.
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Beauty is a fragile gift.
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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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Time is generally the best doctor.
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The bold adventurer succeeds the best.
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Habits change into character.
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The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool.
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Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.
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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.
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An evil life is a kind of death.
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Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.
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Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.
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Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.
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Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.
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Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.
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Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.
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My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.
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If you want to be loved, be lovable.
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Fortune and love favor the brave.
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All love is vanquished by a succeeding love.
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Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships the poor man everywhere lies low.
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First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, 'I believe ' three times.
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Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.
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Bear patiently with a rival.
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Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength.
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Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.
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Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.
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