Ovid Quotes
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What is harder than rock, or softer than water
Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere.
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Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be fish.
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All things change, nothing perishes.
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Love is a kind of warfare.
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Nothing is stronger than habit.
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Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.
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Judgement of beauty can err, what with the wine and the dark.
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Courage conquers all things.
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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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We two are to ourselves a crowd.
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Take rest a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.
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Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.
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To be loved, be lovable.
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If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.
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There is a god within us, and we have intercourse with heaven. That spirit comes from abodes on high.
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Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.
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Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.
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My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.
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Tears at times have all the weight of speech.
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All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.
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Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.
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There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
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The cause is hidden. The effect is visible to all.
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Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.
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Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.
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We are slow to believe that which if believed would hurt our feelings.
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Time the devourer of all things.
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It is the mind that makes the man.
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Dignity and love do not blend well, nor do they continue long together.
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The result justifies the deed.
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Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these
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We can learn even from our enemies.