Ovid Quotes, Beauty Quotes, Wine Quotes

Judgement of beauty can err, what with the wine and the dark.

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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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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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The end doesn't justify the means.

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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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The earth yields up her stores, of every ill The instigators; iron, foe to man, And gold, than iron deadlier.

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Even the gods are moved by the voice of entreaty.

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He whom all hate all wish to see destroyed.

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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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The dove, O hawk, that has once been wounded by thy talons, is frightened by the least movement of a wing. [Lat., Terretur minimo pennae stridore columba Unguibus, accipiter, saucia facta tuis.]

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The laws allow arms to be taken against an armed foe.

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Spare the soul that feels a deadly wound.

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Thanks are justly due for boons unbought

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Jupiter has no leisure to attend to little things.

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Good hope is often beguiled by her own augury.

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The gods see the deeds of the righteous. [Lat., Di pia facta vident.]

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Let ancient times delight other folk, I rejoice that I was not born till now.

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There are as many characters in men As there are shapes in nature.

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Pursuits become habits. [Lat., Abeunt studia in mores.]

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I see and praise what is better, but follow what is worse.

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