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76 Quotes for 'Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)' in the Database.
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The whole earth is the brave man's country.
[Lat., Omne solum forti patria est.]
Topic: Patriotism
Source: Fasti (I, 501)
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Though the power be wanting, yet the wish is praiseworthy.
[Lat., Ut desint vires tamen est laudanda voluntas.]
Topic: Power
Source: Epistoloe Ex Ponto (III, 4, 79)
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What follows I flee; what flees I ever pursue.
[Lat., Quod sequitur, fugio; quod fugit, usque sequor.]
Topic: Progress
Source: Amorum (II, 19, 36)
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The raven once in snowy plumes was drest,
White as the whitest dove's unsullied breast,
Fair as the guardian of the Capitol,
Soft as the swan; a large and lovely fowl
His tongue, his prating tongue had changed him quite
To sooty blackness from the purest white.
Topic: Ravens
Source: Metamorphoses--Story of Coronis, (Addison's translation)
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Knowest thou not that kings have long hands?
[Lat., An nescis longos regibus esse manus?]
Topic: Royalty
Source: Heroides (XVII, 166)
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It is something to hold the scepter with a firm hand.
[Lat., Est aliquid valida sceptra tenere manu.]
Topic: Royalty
Source: Remedia Amoris (480)
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Some report elsewhere whatever is told them; the measure of
fiction always increases, and each fresh narrator adds something
to what he has heard.
[Lat., Hi narrata ferunt alio; mensuraque ficti
Crescit et auditus aliquid novus adjicit auctor.]
Topic: Rumor
Source: Metamorphoses (XII, 57)
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The mind conscious of innocence despises false reports: but we
are a set always ready to believe a scandal.
[Lat., Conscia mens recti famae mendacia risit:
Sed nos in vitium credula turba sumus.]
Topic: Scandal
Source: Fasti (IV, 311)
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I am not ashamed that these reproaches can be cast upon us, and
that they can not be repelled.
[Lat., Pudet haec opprobria nobis
Et dici potuisse et non potuisse repelli.]
Topic: Shame
Source: Metamorphoses (bk. I, 758)
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Here shame dissuades him, there his fear prevails,
And each by turns his aching heart assails.
Topic: Shame
Source: Metamorphoses (bk. III, Transformation of Actoeon, l. 73), (Addison's translation)
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Indulgent gods, grant me to sin once with impunity. That is
sufficient. Let a second offence bear its punishment.
[Lat., Di faciles, peccasse semel concedite tuto:
Id satis est. Peonam culpa secunda ferat.]
Topic: Sin
Source: Amorum (bk. II, 14, 43)
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He who has it in his power to commit sin, is less inclined to do
so. The very idea of being able, weakens the desire.
[Lat., Cui peccare licet peccat minus. Ipsa potestas
Semina nequitiae languidiora facit.]
Topic: Sin
Source: Amorum (III, 4, 9)
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If Jupiter hurled his thunderbolt as often as men sinned, he
would soon be out of thunderbolts.
[Lat., Si quoties homines peccant sua fulmina mittat
Jupiter, exiguo tempore inermis erit.]
Topic: Sin
Source: Tristium (II, 33)
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The least strength suffices to break what is bruised.
[Lat., Minimae vires frangere quassa valent.]
Topic: Strength
Source: Tristia (bk. III, 11, 22)
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Have patience and endure; this unhappiness will one day be
beneficial.
[Lat., Perfer et obdura; dolor hic tibi proderit olim.]
Topic: Suffering
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.]
Topic: Suffering
Source: Heriodes (V, 7)
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Those graceful groves that shade the plain,
Where Tiber rolls majestic to the main,
And flattens, as he runs, the fair campagne.
Topic: Tiber River
Source: Metamorphoses (bk. XIV, Aeneas Arrives in Italy, l. 8), (Sir Samuel Garth's translation)
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All human things hang on a slender thread, the strongest fall
with a sudden crash.
[Lat., Omnia sunt hominum tenui pendentia filo:
Et subito casu, quae valuere, ruunt.]
Topic: Uncertainty
Source: Epistoloe Ex Ponto (IV, 3, 35)
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Treat a thousand dispositions in a thousand ways.
[Lat., Mille animos excipe mille modis.]
Topic: Variety
Source: Ars Amatoria (bk. I, 756)
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Stones are hollowed out by the constant dropping of water.
Topic: Water
Source: Epistoloe Ex Ponto (II, 7, 39)
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There is no small pleasure in sweet water.
[Lat., Est in aqua dulci non invidiosa voluptas.]
Topic: Water
Source: Epistoloe Ex Ponto (II, 7, 73)
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The ungovernable passion for wealth.
[Lat., Opum furiata cupido.]
Topic: Wealth
Source: Fasti (I, 211)
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Riches, the incentives to evil, are dug out of the earth.
[Lat., Effodiuntur opes irritamenta malorum.]
Topic: Wealth
Source: Metamorphoses (I, 140)
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Embarrassment of riches.
[Fr., Embarras des richesse.]
Topic: Wealth
Source: Metamorphoses (I, 140)
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A wound will perhaps become tolerable with length of time; but
wounds which are raw shudder at the touch of the hands.
[Lat., Tempore ducetur longo fortasse cicatrix;
Horrent admotas vulnera cruda manus.]
Topic: Wounds
Source: Epistoloe Ex Ponto (I, 3, 15)
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The wounded gladiator forswears all fighting, but soon forgetting
his former wound resumes his arms.
[Lat., Saucius ejurat pugnam gladiator, et idem
Immemor antiqui vulneris arma capit.]
Topic: Wounds
Source: Epistoloe Ex Ponto (I, 5, 37)
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