Ovid Quotes

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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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Every lover is a warrior, and Cupid has his camps.

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Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.

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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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You who seek an end of love, love will yield to business: be busy, and you will be safe.

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Love is a child and naked; he has years that know no meanness, and he has no clothes, so that he is open in his ways.

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Dripping water hollows out a stone, a ring is worn away by use.

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Envy, the meanest of vices, creeps on the ground like a serpent.

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I have faith that yields to none, and ways without reproach, and unadorned simplicity, and blushing modesty.

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

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By what sweet charm I know not the native land
draws all men nor allows them to forget her.

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Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.

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Ere land and sea and the all-covering sky Were made, in the whole world the countenance Of nature was the same, all one, well named Chaos, a raw and undivided mass, Naught but a lifeless bulk, with warring seeds Of ill-joined elements compressed together.

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Poetry comes fine-spun from a mind at peace.

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Friendship is but a name, faith is an empty name. Alas,
it is not safe to praise to a friend the object of your love;
as soon as he believes your praises, he slips into your place.

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See that you promise: what harm is there in promise? In
promises anyone can be rich.

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Let love steal in disguised as friendship.

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A creature of a more exalted kind
Was wanting yet, and then was Man designed;
Conscious of thought, of more capacious breast,
For empire formed, and fit to rule the rest.

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Hence come the hardness of our race and our endurance of toil; and we give proof from what origin we are sprung.

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Calumny ever pursues the great, even as the winds hurl themselves on high places.

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How little you know about the age you live in if you think that honey is sweeter than cash in hand

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It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe that there are.

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