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Quotations By Ovid

Courage

Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

Courage

Fortune and love favor the brave.

Cunning

Deadly poisons are concealed under sweet honey. -- Ovid

Envy

Envy feeds on the living. It ceases when they are dead.

Evil

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Fear

Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.

Grief

Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength. -- Ovid

Idleness

Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves. -- Ovid

Love

Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.

Love

Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him, Easy-going enough once you acknowledge his power.

Luck

Luck affects everything. let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish.

Marriage

What makes men indifferent to their wives is that they can see them when they please.

Power

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. -- Ovid

Sleep

Time, motion and wine cause sleep. -- Ovid

Suffer

What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless. -- Ovid

Women

Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them. -- Ovid