Ovid Quotes, Mean Quotes, Want Quotes

He lives well who lives retired, and keeps His wants within the limits of his means.

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To wish is of little account; to succeed you must earnestly desire; and this desire must shorten thy sleep.

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The whole earth is the brave man's country. [Lat., Omne solum forti patria est.]

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While strength and years permit, endure labor; soon bent old age will come with silent foot. [Lat., Dum vires annique sinunt, tolerate labores. Jam veniet tacito curva senecta pede.]

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Chastity, once lost, cannot be recalled; it goes only once.

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Let what is irksome become habitual, no more will it trouble you.

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Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.

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It is something to hold the scepter with a firm hand. [Lat., Est aliquid valida sceptra tenere manu.]

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If he should love deny him what he loves!

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From high Meonia's rocky shores I came, Of poor decsent, Acoetes is my name, My sire was measly born: no oxen ploughed, His fruitful fields, nor in his pastures lowed, His whole estate within the waters lay' With lines and hooks he caught the finny prey; His art was all his livelehood, which he Thus with his dying lips bequeathed to me: In streams, my boy, and rivers take thy chance; There swims', said he, Thy whole inheritance.

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Tags : Ovid Quotes , Art Quotes , Boys Quotes

Only begin, and you will become eloquent of yourself.

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Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.

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Idleness ruins the constitution

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Envy assails the noblest: the winds howl around the highest peaks.

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Concealed sorrow bursts the heart, and rages within us as an internal fire.

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The pleasure that is granted to me from a sense of duty ceases to be a pleasure at all.

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For in this strange anatomy we wear, the head has greater powers than the hand; the spirit, heart, and mind are over all.

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Have consideration for wounded feelings.

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There is no brotherhood between love and dignity, Nor can they share the same abode.

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We must improve our time; time goes with rapid foot.

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