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A thousand ills require a thousand cures.

A thousand ills require a thousand cures.

Ovid
Cures, Thousand
Ovid (1932). “The Love Books of Ovid”, p.216, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

Though the power be wanting, yet the wish is praiseworthy.

Ovid
Power, Wish, Praiseworthy

The sick mind can not bear anything harsh. [Lat., Mensque pati durum sustinet aegra nihil.]

Ovid
Sick, Mind, Bears

If he should love deny him what he loves!

Ovid
Deny, Should, Ifs
Ovid, Brookes More (1978). “Ovid”

These are the evils which result from gossiping habits.

Ovid
Evil, Habit, Results

It's right to learn, even from the enemy.

Ovid
Enemy

A light breath fans the flame, a violent gust extinguishes it.

Ovid
Light, Flames, Fans

Little things please little minds.

Ovid
Mind, Littles, Little Things
Ovid, Stanley Appelbaum (2010). “The Art of Love”, p.9, Courier Corporation

Women can always be caught; that's the first rule of the game.

Ovid
Women, Games, Firsts
Ovid (1957). “The Loves: The Art of Beauty, The Remedies for Love, and The Art of Love”, p.113, Indiana University Press

All things human hang by a slender thread; and that which seemed to stand strong suddenly falls and sinks in ruins.

Ovid
Strong, Fall, Ruins

Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery.

Ovid
Lying, Differences, Knavery

There is no excellency without difficulty.

Ovid
Excellence, Difficulty

I too am not powerless, and my weapons strike hard.

Ovid
Weapons, Strikes, Hard

When the lightning strikes but one, not one only does it terrify.

Ovid
Lightning, Doe, Strikes

A wound will perhaps become tolerable with length of time; but wounds which are raw shudder at the touch of the hands.

Ovid
Hands, Length, Tolerable

Only begin, and you will become eloquent of yourself.

Ovid
Speech, Eloquent

The wit of man has devised cruel statutes, And nature oft permits what is by law forbid.

Ovid
Men, Law, Permit

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
Self Love, Understanding, Way

We do not bear sweets; we are recruited by a bitter potion.

Ovid
Sweet, Medicine, Bears

There is a god within us, and the heavens Have intercourse with earth; from realms above That spirit comes.

Ovid
God, Heaven, Earth

Diseases of the mind impair the bodily powers.

Ovid
Mind, Disease

We can learn even from our enemies.

Ovid
Enemy

Sleep, rest of things, O pleasing Deity, Peace of the soul, which cares dost crucify, Weary bodies refresh and mollify.

Ovid
Sleep, Insomnia, Soul

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

Ovid
Envy, Cease

Thy destiny is only that of man, but thy aspirations may be those of a god.

Ovid
Destiny, Men, May

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