Ovid

Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.

— Ovid

The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.

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We beg one hour of death, that neither she With widow's tears may live to bury me, Nor weeping I, with wither'd…

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Right it is to be taught even by the enemy.

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By constant dripping, water hollows stone, A signet-ring from use alone grows thin, And the curved plowshare by soft earth is worn.

— Ovid

Most safely shall you tread the middle path.

— Ovid

We can learn even from our enemies.

— Ovid

Wherever I look there is nothing but the image of death.

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Winged time glides on insensibly, and deceive us; and there is nothing more fleeting than years.

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Love is too prone to trust. Would I could think My charges false and all too rashly made.

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Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.

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Have consideration for wounded feelings.

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“And when wine has soaked Cupid’s drunken wings, he’s stayed, weighed down, a captive of the place. ... Wine rouses courage and…

— Ovid

Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe.

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What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps with it alone, she lives.

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That tuneful nymph, the babbling Echo.

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As the hawk is wont to pursue the trembling doves.

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Let others seek safety. Nothing is safer than misfortune, Where there's no fear of greater ill to come.

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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

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No thanks attach to a kindness long deferred.

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“Now I am ready to tell how bodies are changed Into different bodies.”

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The gods behold all righteous actions.

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In sweet water there is a pleasure ungrudged by anyone.

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A bitter drug oft brings relief.

— Ovid

“Non inpune feres neque'' ait ''reddere Canenti, laesaque quid faciat, quid amans, quid femina disces rebus'' ait ''sed amans et laesa et…

— Ovid