Ovid Quotes, Sorry Quotes, Honesty Quotes

A man is sorry to be honest for nothing.

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Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.

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The raven once in snowy plumes was drest, White as the whitest dove's unsullied breast, Fair as the guardian of the Capitol, Soft as the swan; a large and lovely fowl His tongue, his prating tongue had changed him quite To sooty blackness from the purest white.

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Man's last day must ever be awaited and none to be counted happy until his death, until his last funeral rites are paid.

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Though the power be wanting, yet the wish is praiseworthy.

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May you live unenvied, and pass many pleasant years unknown to fame; and also have congenial friends. [Lat., Vive sine invidia, mollesque inglorius annos Exige; amicitias et tibi junge pares.]

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She who resists as though she would not win, By her own treason falls an easy prey.

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Consider the misfortunes of others, and you will be the better able to bear your own.

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

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The workmanship was better than the subject matter.

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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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Twice does he live who can enjoy the remembrance of the past.

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If Jupiter hurled his thunderbolt as often as men sinned, he would soon be out of thunderbolts.

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He whom all hate all wish to see destroyed.

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Habits change into character.

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A pious fraud. [Lat., Pia fraus.]

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Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses.

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Love conquers all things; let us own her dominion.

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Writings survive the years; it is by writings that you know Agamemnon, and those who fought for or against him. [Lat., Scripta ferunt annos; scriptis Agamemnona nosti, Et quisquis contra vel simul arma tulit.]

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Haste is productive of injury, and so is too much hesitation. He is the wisest man who does everything at the proper time.

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