All Ovid Quotes
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.
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Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts.
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The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.
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Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.
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Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.
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Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.
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Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.
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At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.
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Let what is irksome become habitual, no more will it trouble you.
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