| 76 Famous Quotes by Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
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“Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.
[Lat., Ut fragilis glacies interit ira mora.]”
Anger Quotes Source: Ara Amatoria (I, 374)
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“The ungovernable passion for wealth.
[Lat., Opum furiata cupido.]”
Wealth Quotes Source: Fasti (I, 211)
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“Riches, the incentives to evil, are dug out of the earth.
[Lat., Effodiuntur opes irritamenta malorum.]”
Wealth Quotes Source: Metamorphoses (I, 140)
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“Embarrassment of riches.
[Fr., Embarras des richesse.]”
Wealth Quotes Source: Metamorphoses (I, 140)
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“We covet what is guarded; the very care invokes the thief. Few
love what they may have.
[Lat., Quicquid servatur, cupimus magis: ipsaque furem
Cura vocat. Pauci, quod sinit alter, amant.]”
Covetousness Quotes Source: Amorum (III, 4, 25)
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“Truly now is the golden age; the highest honour comes by means of
gold; by gold love is procured.
[Lat., Aurea nunc vere sunt saecula; plurimus auto
Venit honos; auro concilatur amor.]”
Gold Quotes Source: Ars Amatoria (bk. II, 277)
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“We are always striving for things forbidden, and coveting those
denied us.
[Lat., Nitimur in vetitum semper, cupimusque negata.]”
Desire Quotes Source: Amorum (III, 4, 17)
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“He who has lived obscurely and quietly has lived well.
[Lat., Bene qui latuit, bene vixit.]”
Obscurity Quotes Source: Tristium (III, 4, 25)
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“Birth and ancestry, and that which we have not ourselves
achieved, we can scarcely call our own.
[Lat., Nam genus et proavos et quae non fecimus ipsi
Vix ea nostra voco.]”
Ancestry Quotes Source: Metamorphoses (XIII, 140)
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“Knowest thou not that kings have long hands?
[Lat., An nescis longos regibus esse manus?]”
Royalty Quotes 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.]”
Royalty Quotes Source: Remedia Amoris (480)
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“Though the power be wanting, yet the wish is praiseworthy.
[Lat., Ut desint vires tamen est laudanda voluntas.]”
Power Quotes Source: Epistoloe Ex Ponto (III, 4, 79)
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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.”
Tiber river Quotes Source: Metamorphoses (bk. XIV, Aeneas Arrives in Italy, l. 8), (Sir Samuel Garth's translation)
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“Nothing is stronger than habit.
[Lat., Nil consuetudine majus.]”
Habit Quotes Source: Ars Amatoria (II, 345)
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“Pursuits become habits.
[Lat., Abeunt studia in mores.]”
Habit Quotes Source: Heroides (XV, 83)
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“Ill habits gather by unseen degrees,
As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.”
Habit Quotes Source: Metamorphoses (bk. XV, l. 155), (Dryden's translation)
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“Habit had made the custom.
[Lat., Morem fecerat usus.]”
Habit Quotes Source: Metamorphoses (II, 345)
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“We do not bear sweets; we are recruited by a bitter potion.
[Lat., Dulcia non ferimus; succo renovamus amaro.]”
Medicine Quotes Source: Ara Amatoria (III, 583)
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“Sickness seizes the body from bad ventilation.
[Lat., Aere non certo corpora languor habet.]”
Disease Quotes Source: Ara Amatoria (II, 310)
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“Diseases of the mind impair the bodily powers.
[Lat., Vitiant artus aegrae contagia mentis.]”
Disease Quotes Source: Tristium (III, 8, 25)
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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.]”
Wounds Quotes 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.]”
Wounds Quotes Source: Epistoloe Ex Ponto (I, 5, 37)
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“Thou beginnest better than thou endest.
The last is inferior to the first.
[Lat., Coepisti melius quam desinis. Ultima primis cedunt.]”
Beginnings Quotes Source: Heroides (IX, 23)
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“Resist beginnings: it is too late to employ medicine when the
evil has grown strong by inveterate habit.
[Lat., Principiis obsta: sero medicina paratur,
Cum mala per longas convaluere moras.]”
Beginnings Quotes Source: Remedia Amoris (XCI)
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“The cause is hidden, but the result is known.
[Lat., Causa latet: vis est notissima.]”
Cause Quotes Source: Metamorphoses (IV, 287)
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