| 40 Famous Quotes by Ovid Publius Ovidius Naso
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“Our neighbour's crop is always more fruitful and his cattle
produce more milk than our own.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: (Latin)
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“Pedigree and ancestry and what we ourselves have not achieved, I
scarcely recognize as our own.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: (Latin)
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“Pleasure is often the introduction to pain.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: (Latin)
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“Pride is innate in beauty, and haughtiness is the companion of
the fair.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: (Latin)
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“Rest strengthens the body, the mind too is thus supported; but
unremitting toil destroys both.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: (Latin)
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“Riches too increase, and the maddening craving for gold,
So that men ever seek for more, that they may have the most.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: (Latin)
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“She only is chaste, who is chaste where there is no danger of
detection: she who does not, because she may not, does.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: (Latin)
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“Small minds are captivated by trifles.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: (Latin)
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“Take time: much may be gained by patience.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: (Latin)
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“Tears are at times as eloquent as words. [Weeping hath a voice.]”
Proverbs Quotes Source: (Latin)
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“That fair face will as years roll on lose its beauty, and old age
will bring its wrinkles to the brow.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: (Latin)
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“Often a silent face has voice and words.
[Lat., Saepe tacens vocem verbaque vultus habet.]”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Ars Amatoria (bk. I, 574)
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“Alas! How difficult it is to prevent the countenance from
betraying guilt!
[Heu! quam difficile est crimen non prodere vultu.]”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Metamorphoses (II, 447)
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“Rome was not built in a day.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Metamorphoses (II, 447)
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“Let those love now, who never loved before,
Let those who always loved, now love the more.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Metamorphoses (II, 447)
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