| 76 Famous Quotes by Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
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“Have patience and endure; this unhappiness will one day be
beneficial.
[Lat., Perfer et obdura; dolor hic tibi proderit olim.]”
Suffering Quotes Source: Amorum (III, 11, 7)
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“What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when
the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless.
[Lat., Leniter ex merito quidquid patiare ferendum est,
Quae venit indigne poena dolenda venit.]”
Suffering Quotes Source: Heriodes (V, 7)
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“The least strength suffices to break what is bruised.
[Lat., Minimae vires frangere quassa valent.]”
Strength Quotes Source: Tristia (bk. III, 11, 22)
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“According to the state of a man's conscience, so do hope and fear
on account of his deeds arise in his mind.
[Lat., Conscia mens ut cuique sua est, ita concipit intra
Pectora pro facto spemque metumque suo.]”
Conscience Quotes Source: Fasti (I, 485)
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“The need has gone; the memorial thereof remains.
[Lat., Factum abiit; monumenta manent.]”
Monuments Quotes Source: Fasti (bk. IV, 709)
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“The good of other times let people state;
I think it lucky I was born so late.
[Lat., Prisca juvent alios; ego me nunc denique natum Gratulor.]”
Past Quotes Source: Ars Amatoria (III, 121), (translation by Sydney Smith)
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“The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.
[Lat., Immensum gloria calcar habet.]”
Glory Quotes Source: Epistoloe Ex Ponto (IV, 2, 36)
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“What follows I flee; what flees I ever pursue.
[Lat., Quod sequitur, fugio; quod fugit, usque sequor.]”
Progress Quotes Source: Amorum (II, 19, 36)
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“The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.
[Lat., Poena potest demi, culpa perennis erit.]”
Crime Quotes Source: Epistoloe Ex Ponto (I, 1, 64)
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“Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our
inclination.
[Lat., Factis ignoscite nostris
Si scelus ingenio scitis abesse meo.]”
Crime Quotes Source: Fasti (bk. III, 309)
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“Where crime is taught from early years, it becomes a part of
nature.
[Lat., Ars fit ubi a teneris crimen condiscitur annis.]”
Crime Quotes Source: Heroides (IV, 25)
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“Have patience and endure; this unhappiness will one day be
beneficial.
[Lat., Perfer et obdura; dolor hic tibi proderit olim.]”
Patience Quotes Source: Amorum (III, 11, 7)
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“The judge's duty is to inquire about the time, as well as the
facts.
[Lat., Judicis officium est ut res ita tempora rerum
Quaerere.]”
Judges Quotes Source: Tristium (I, 1, 37)
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“A field becomes exhausted by constant tillage.
[Lat., Continua messe senescit ager.]”
Agriculture Quotes Source: Are Amatoria (III, 82)
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“Nor is there any law more just, than that he who has plotted
death shall perish by his own plot.
[Lat., Neque enim lex est aequior ulla,
Quam necis artifices arte perire sua.]”
Murder Quotes Source: Ars Amatoria (I, 655)
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“If it were in my power, I would be wiser; but a newly felt power
carries me off in spite of myself; love leads me one way, my
understanding another.
[Lat., Si possem sanior essem.
Sed trahit invitam nova vis; aliudque Cupido,
Mens aliud.]”
Influence Quotes Source: Metamorphoses (VII, 18)
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“Our native land charms us with inexpressible sweetness, and never
never allows us to forget that we belong to it.
[Lat., Nescio qua natale solum dulcedine captos
Ducit, et immemores non sinit esse sui.]”
Patriotism Quotes Source: Epistoloe Ex Ponto (I, 3, 35)
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“The whole earth is the brave man's country.
[Lat., Omne solum forti patria est.]”
Patriotism Quotes Source: Fasti (I, 501)
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“Then the Omnipotent Father with his thunder made Olympus tremble,
and from Ossa hurled Pelion.”
Mountains Quotes Source: Metamorphoses (I)
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“Treat a thousand dispositions in a thousand ways.
[Lat., Mille animos excipe mille modis.]”
Variety Quotes Source: Ars Amatoria (bk. I, 756)
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“Fortune and love favour the brave.
[Lat., Audentum Forsque Venusque juvant.]”
Bravery Quotes Source: Ars Amatoria (bk. I, 608)
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“The brave find a home in every land.
[Lat., Omne solum forti patria est.]”
Bravery Quotes Source: Fasti (I, 493)
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“God himself favors the brave.
[Lat., Audentes deus ipse juvat.]”
Bravery Quotes Source: Metamorphoses (X, 586)
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“To wish for death is a coward's part.
[Lat., Timidi est optare necem.]”
Cowards Quotes Source: Metamorphoses (IV, 115)
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“Anger assists hands however weak.
[Lat., Quamlibet infirmas adjuvat ira manus.]”
Anger Quotes Source: Amorum (I, 7, 66)
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