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Calumny ever pursues the great, even as the winds hurl themselves on high places.

Calumny ever pursues the great, even as the winds hurl themselves on high places.

Ovid
Wind, Calumny, Slander
Ovid (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)”, p.358, Delphi Classics

Tis base to plead the unhappy prisoner's cause, With eloquence that's bought.

Ovid
Unhappy, Causes, Prisoner

Nations and empires flourish and decay, By turns command, and in their turns obey.

Ovid
Decay, Empires, Command
Ovid, Banier (M. l'abbé, Antoine), Bernard Picart (1717). “Ovid's Metamorphoses: In Latin and English, Translated by the Most Eminent Hands. With Historical Explications of the Fables, Written in French by the Abbot Banier, ... Translated Into English. Adorned with Sculptures by B. Picart, and Other Able Masters”, p.529

We praise times past, while we times present use; Yet due the worship which to each we give.

Ovid
Past, Giving, Use

It is art to conceal art. -Ars est celare artem

Ovid
Art

When all the other animals, downcast looked upon the earth, he [Prometheus] gave a face raised on high to man, and commanded him to see the sky and raise his high eyes to the stars.

Ovid
Stars, Eye, Animal

Fortune resists half-hearted prayers.

Ovid
Prayer, Half, Fortune
Ovid (1994). “Metamorphoses: books I-VIII”

Constant Penelope sends to thee, careless Ulysses. Write not again, but come, sweet mate

Ovid
Sweet, Writing, Lovers

Love is a kind of warfare.

Ovid
Love, Break Up, Broken Heart
Ovid (2015). “The Art Of Love”, p.36, Ovid

There is no need of words; believe facts. [Lat., Non opus est verbis, credite rebus.]

Ovid
Believe, Needs, Facts

Giving calls for genius.

Ovid
Giving, Genius
Ovid, Grant Showerman (1977). “Heroides ; Amores”, Heinemann Young Books

Venus is kind to creatures as young as we;We know not what we do, and while we're youngWe have the right to live and love like gods.

Ovid
And Love, Venus, Kind

Wine, not too much, inspires and make the mind,to the soft joys of Venus strong inclined,which, buried in excess, unapt to love,stupidly lies and knows not hom to move

Ovid
Strong, Lying, Moving

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

Ovid
Love, Trust, Thinking

If you would conquer Love, he must be fought At his first onslaught; sprinkle but a drop Of water, the new-kindled flame expires.

Ovid
Love, Flames, Water

There is no brotherhood between love and dignity, Nor can they share the same abode.

Ovid
Love, Brotherhood, Dignity

The earth yields up her stores, of every ill The instigators; iron, foe to man, And gold, than iron deadlier.

Ovid
Money, Men, Yield

There is a certain kind of pleasure in weeping.

Ovid
Kind, Pleasure, Certain

Some people think that because they do the opposite of what they are asked to do, they have initiative

Ovid
Thinking, Opposites, People

It warms the blood, adds luster to the eyes, and wine and love have ever been allies.

Ovid
Wine, Eye, Blood

Time was when genius was more precious than gold, but now to have nothing is monstrous barbarism.

Ovid
Gold, Genius, Wealth
Ovid (1986). “Heroides ; and, Amores”

You put aside the work that's done, and seek some work to do.

Ovid
Work, Done

Ovid lies here, the poet, skilled in love's gentle sport; By his own talents he worked his undoing. Oh, you who pass by, if ever you have loved, Think it not a burden to wish him calm repose.

Ovid
Love, Sports, Lying

In prosperity you may count on many friends; if the sky becomes overcast you will be alone.

Ovid
Sky, May, Prosperity

What is allowed us is disagreeable, what is denied us causes us intense desire.

Ovid
Desire, Causes, Intense

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