Ovid Quotes

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Then the omnipotent Father with his thunder made Olympus tremble, and from Ossa hurled Pelion.

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Nor can one easily find among many thousands a single man who considers virtue its own reward. The very glory of a good deed, if it lacks reward, affects them not; unrewarded uprightness brings them regret. Nothing but profit is prized.

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Thus, while the mute creation downward bend
Their sight, and to their earthly mother tend,
Man looks aloft, and with erected eyes
Beholds his own hereditary skies.

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What lies hid is unknown, and there is no desire for the unknown.

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Pointing to a pile of dust, that had collected, I foolishly begged to have as many anniversaries of my birth, as were represented by the dust. But I forgot to ask that the years should be accompanied by youth.

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I grabbed a pile of dust, and holding it up, foolishly asked for as many birthdays as the grains of dust, I forgot to ask that they be years of youth.

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Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him,
Easy-going enough once you acknowledge his power.

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Struggling over my fickle heart, love draws it now this
way, and now hate that--but love, I think, is winning. I
will hate, if I have strength; if not, I shall love unwilling.

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They bear punishment with equanimity who have earned it.

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We beg one hour of death, that neither she
With widow's tears may live to bury me,
Nor weeping I, with wither'd arms, may bear
My breathless Baucis to the sepulchre.

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You start in April and cross to the time of May
One has you as it leaves, one as it comes
Since the edges of these months are yours and defer
To you, either of them suits your praises.
The Circus continues and the theatre's lauded palm,
Let this song, too, join the Circus spectacle.

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Now there are fields of corn where Troy once was.

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As the mind of each man is conscious of good or evil, so does he conceive within his breast hope or fear, according to his actions.

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Although two crimes, a song and a mistake, have done me in.

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And it is a smaller thing to suffer the punishment than to have deserved it.

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I have never injured anybody with a mordant poem; my
verse contains charges against nobody. Ingenuous, I have
shunned wit steeped in venom--not a letter of mine is dipped
in poisonous jest.

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We take no pleasure in permitted joys.
But what's forbidden is more keenly sought.

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There is a place above, where Scorpio bent, In tail and arms surrounds a vast extent; In a wide circuit of the heavens he shines, And fills the place of two celestial signs.

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There is a high way, easily seen when the sky is clear. 'Tis called the Milky Way, famed for its shining whiteness.

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He who holds the hook is aware in what waters many fish are swimming.

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