Ovid Quotes, Suffering Quotes

Often they benefit who suffer wrong.

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O fool, what else is sleep but chill death's likeness?

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Alas! how difficult it is not to betray one's guilt by one's looks.

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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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Tempus fugit (time flies).

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For this reason, if you believe proverbs, let me tell you the common one: "It is unlucky to marry in May.

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Let those who have deserved their punishment, bear it patiently. [Lat., Aequo animo poenam, qui meruere, ferant.]

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Death is not grievous to me, for I shall lay aside my pains by death. [Lat., Nec mihi mors gravis est posituro morte dolores.]

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

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What we call birth Is but a beginning to be something else Than what we were before; and when we cease To be that something, then we call it death.

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Nothing aids which may not also injure us. Fire serves us well, but he who plots to burn His neighbor's roof arms his hands with fire.

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What one beholds of a woman is the least part of her.

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Rest strengthens the body, the mind too is thus supported; but unremitting toil destroys both.

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To have properly studied the liberal sciences gives a polish to our manners, and removes all awkwardness.

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Indulgent gods, grant me to sin once with impunity. That is sufficient. Let a second offence bear its punishment.

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Nations and empires flourish and decay, By turns command, and in their turns obey.

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As wave is driven by wave And each, pursued, pursues the wave ahead, So time flies on and follows, flies, and follows, Always, for ever and new. What was before Is left behind; what never was is now; And every passing moment is renewed.

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Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.

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Forbear to lay the guilt of a few on the many.

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Nothing in the entire universe ever perishes, believe me, but things vary, and adopt a new form. The phrase being born is used for beginning to be something different from what one was before, while dying means ceasing to be the same. Though this thing may pass into that, and that into this, yet the sums of things remains unchanged.

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