Quotes by Ovid

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

Ovid on night
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"Always have your hook baited, in the pool you least think, there will be a fish."

Ovid on opportunity   

"The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late."

Ovid on past   

"That you may please others you must be forgetful of yourself."

Ovid on people   

"Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by."

Ovid on perseverance
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"Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned."

Ovid on promises   

"It is no less a feat to keep what you have, than to increase it. In one there is chance, the other will be a work of art."

Ovid on prudence   

"Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear."

Ovid on psychology   

"Make the workmanship surpass the materials."

Ovid on quality   

"What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct."

Ovid on reason   

"What is without periods of rest will not endure."

Ovid on rest   

"Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love."

Ovid on risk
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"Daring is not safe against daring men."

Ovid on risk   

"Majesty and love do not consort well together, nor do they dwell in the same place."

Ovid on royalty   

"All things human hang by a slender thread; and that which seemed to stand strong suddenly falls and sinks in ruins."

Ovid on security   

"Skill makes love unending."

Ovid on sex
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"'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause."

Ovid on silence   

"Had I not sinned what would there be for you to pardon. My fate has given you the opportunity for mercy."

Ovid on sin   

"Well has he lived who has lived well in obscurity."

Ovid on solitude
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"Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good."

Ovid on sorrow
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"We are slow to believe that which if believed would hurt our feelings."

Ovid on belief
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"People are slow to believe that, which if believed would work them harm."

Ovid on belief   

"Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe."

Ovid on business   

"All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement."

Ovid on change
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"To give requires good sense."

Ovid on charity   

"Remove the temptation of idleness and cupids bow is useless."

Ovid on temptation   

"Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign."

Ovid on time   

"Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again."

Ovid on time
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"Nothing is swifter than our years."

Ovid on time   

"Time is the devourer of all things."

Ovid on time   

"Although they posses enough, and more than enough still they yearn for more."

Ovid on wealth   

"The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting."

Ovid on power   

"Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all."

Ovid on worry   

"Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish."

Ovid on action   

"Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward."

Ovid on action   

"How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man."

Ovid on children   

"A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace."

Ovid on competition
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"People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude."

Ovid on confidence   

"The burden which is well borne becomes light."

Ovid on courage   

"Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body."

Ovid on courage