Ovid Quotes, Past Quotes, Giving Quotes

We praise times past, while we times present use; Yet due the worship which to each we give.

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Suppressed pain chokes us; in our breasts It surges, adding ever to its strength.

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He whom all hate all wish to see destroyed.

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When a rose dies, a thorn is left behind.

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Often they benefit who suffer wrong.

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Knowest thou not that kings have long hands? [Lat., An nescis longos regibus esse manus?]

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Remove the temptation of idleness and Cupid's bow is useless.

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In an easy cause anyone can be eloquent; the slightest strength is enough to break what is already shattered.

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A gift in time of need is most acceptable.

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Meet the disorder in the outset, the medicine may be too late, when the disease has gained ground through delay.

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The rose is often found near the nettle.

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Wine prepares the heart for love, unless you take too much.

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Nothing is more useful to man that those arts which have no utility.

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Nothing retains its form; new shapes from old. Nature, the great inventor, ceaselessly contrives. In all creation, be assured, there is no death - no death, but only change and innovation; what we men call birth is but a different new beginning; death is but to cease to be the same. Perhaps this may have moved to that, and that to this, yet still the sum of things remains the same.

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Tis base to plead the unhappy prisoner's cause, With eloquence that's bought.

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Our native soil draws all of us, by I know not what sweetness, and never allows us to forget.

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Thy destiny is only that of man, but thy aspirations may be those of a god.

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Gifts, believe me, captivate both men and Gods, Jupiter himself was won over and appeased by gifts.

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I would that you were either less beautiful, or less corrupt. Such perfect beauty does not suit such imperfect morals. [Lat., Aut formosa fores minus, aut minus improba vellem. Non facit ad mores tam bona forma malos.]

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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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