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title: "5 Ads Quotes By Ovid"
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> [Skilled in every trick, a worthy heir of his paternal craft, he would make black look like white, and white look black.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ovid/skilled-in-every-trick-a-worthy-heir-of-his-paternal-craft-he-would/)

[Ovid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ovid/)

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> [We are all bound thither; we are hastening to the same common goal. Black death calls all things under the sway of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ovid/we-are-all-bound-thither-we-are-hastening-to-the-same-common-goal/)

[Ovid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ovid/)

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> [Tempore difficiles veniunt ad aratra juvenci; Tempore lenta pati frena docentur equi. In time the unmanageable young oxen come to the plough;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ovid/tempore-difficiles-veniunt-ad-aratra-juvenci-tempore-lenta-pati-frena/)

[Ovid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ovid/)

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> [I would that you were either less beautiful, or less corrupt. Such perfect beauty does not suit such imperfect morals. \[Lat., Aut…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ovid/i-would-that-you-were-either-less-beautiful-or-less-corrupt-such/)

[Ovid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ovid/)

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> [Ants do no bend their ways to empty barns, so no friend will visit the place of departed wealth. \[Lat., Horrea formicae…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ovid/ants-do-no-bend-their-ways-to-empty-barns-so-no-friend-will-visit-the/)

[Ovid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ovid/)

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## Other authors on Ads

## More by Ovid

> [Every woman thinks herself attractive; even the plainest is satisfied with the charms she deems that she possesses.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ovid/every-woman-thinks-herself-attractive-even-the-plainest-is-satisfied/)

[Ovid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ovid/)

> [Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ovid/suppressed-grief-suffocates-it-rages-within-the-breast-and-is-forced/)

[Ovid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ovid/)

> [Honesty, by evil fortune tried, Finds in adversity the seed of praise.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ovid/honesty-by-evil-fortune-tried-finds-in-adversity-the-seed-of-praise/)

[Ovid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ovid/)

> [It is some alleviation to ills we cannot cure to speak of them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ovid/it-is-some-alleviation-to-ills-we-cannot-cure-to-speak-of-them/)

[Ovid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ovid/)

> [ A mind conscious of right laughs at the falsehoods of rumour. \[Lat., Conscia mens recti famae mendacia risit.\] ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ovid/a-mind-conscious-of-right-laughs-at-the-falsehoods-of-rumour-lat/)

[Ovid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ovid/)

> [Time is generally the best doctor.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ovid/time-is-generally-the-best-doctor/)

[Ovid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ovid/)

> [It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ovid/it-is-convenient-that-there-be-gods-and-as-it-is-convenient-let-us/)

[Ovid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ovid/)

> [I hate a woman who offers herself because she ought to do so, and cold and dry thinks of her sewing when making love.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ovid/i-hate-a-woman-who-offers-herself-because-she-ought-to-do-so-and-cold/)

[Ovid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ovid/)

> [The sea's vast depths lie open to the fish; Wherever the breezes blow the bird may fly; So to the brave man every land's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ovid/the-sea-s-vast-depths-lie-open-to-the-fish-wherever-the-breezes-blow/)

[Ovid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ovid/)

> [Rare is the virtue that's not ruled by Fortune, That stands unshaken even when Fortune flees.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ovid/rare-is-the-virtue-that-s-not-ruled-by-fortune-that-stands-unshaken/)

[Ovid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ovid/)

> [Thus all things altered. Nothing dies. And here and there the unbodied spirit flies.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ovid/thus-all-things-altered-nothing-dies-and-here-and-there-the-unbodied/)

[Ovid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ovid/)

> [How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ovid/how-little-is-the-promise-of-the-child-fulfilled-in-the-man/)

[Ovid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ovid/)

> [Judgement of beauty can err, what with the wine and the dark.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ovid/judgement-of-beauty-can-err-what-with-the-wine-and-the-dark/)

[Ovid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ovid/)

> [Leave war to others; 'tis Protesilaus' part of love.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ovid/leave-war-to-others-tis-protesilaus-part-of-love/)

[Ovid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ovid/)

> [Remove but the temptations of leisure, and the bow of Cupid will lose its effect.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ovid/remove-but-the-temptations-of-leisure-and-the-bow-of-cupid-will-lose/)

[Ovid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ovid/)

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