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Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.

Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.

Ovid
Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

Ovid
Change, Life Changing, Persistence

Difficulty is what wakes up the genius.

Ovid
Wake Up, Genius, Difficulty

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.

Ovid
Happiness, Happy, Hurt

Love is no assignment for cowards.

Ovid
Love, Relationship, Marriage

If you are not ready today, you will be even less so tomorrow.

Ovid
Procrastination, Today, Tomorrow

Keep a mid course between two extremes.

Ovid
Two, Moderation, Extremes

What is harder than rock, or softer than water? Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere.

Ovid
Life, Motivational, Rocks

A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.

Ovid
Motivational, Running, Horse
Ovid (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)”, p.343, Delphi Classics

Habits change into character.

Ovid
Change, Character, Ancient

He lives well who lives retired, and keeps His wants within the limits of his means.

Ovid
Mean, Want, Limits

There is nothing constant in the universe. All ebb and flow, and every shape that's born, bears in its womb the seeds of change.

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Destiny, Ebb And Flow, Shapes

Stop short of your appetite; eat less than you are able.

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Food, Able, Appetite

Meet the disorder in the outset, the medicine may be too late, when the disease has gained ground through delay.

Ovid
Medicine, Too Late, Delay

Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid
Love, Inspiring, Depressing

Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop

Ovid
Inspirational, Success, Wisdom

If you want to be loved, be lovable.

Ovid
Love, Inspirational, Life

My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope. [Lat., Et res non semper, spes mihi semper adest.]

Ovid
Hope

Trivial losses often prove great gains.

Ovid
Loss, Gains, Prove

The purpose of law is to prevent the strong always having their way.

Ovid
Strong, Law, Purpose

Consider the misfortunes of others, and you will be the better able to bear your own.

Ovid
Able, Bears, Misfortunes Of Others

What is without periods of rest will not endure.

Ovid
Inspirational, Relaxation, Periods

Nothing is stronger than habit.

Ovid
Inspirational, Humor, Deep Thought

Simplicity is a jewel rarely found.

Ovid
Jewels, Simplicity, Found

Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.

Ovid
Eye, Sight, Soul

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