Ovid - Love Quotes

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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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And now I have finished a work that neither the wrath of love, nor fire, nor the sword, nor devouring age shall be able to destroy.

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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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I am the poor man's poet; because I am poor myself and I have known what it is to be in love. Not being able to pay them in presents, I pay my mistresses in poetry.

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Let love steal in disguised as friendship.

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Let who does not wish to be idle fall in love!

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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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Love yields to business. If you seek a way out of love, be busy; you'll be safe then.

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Let him who loves, where love success may find,
Spread all his sails before the prosperous wind;
But let poor youths who female scorn endure,
And hopeless burn, repair to me for cure.

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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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Love is a naked child: do you think he has pockets for money?

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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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Love is born of idleness and, once born, by idleness is fostered.

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She that weds well will wisely match her love, Nor be below her husband nor above.

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