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Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.

Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.

Ovid
Inspirational, Wisdom, Integrity

Whether they yield or refuse, it delights women to have been asked.

Ovid
Yield, Dating, Romance

Do not believe hastily.

Ovid
Believe, Belief

Twice does he live who can enjoy the remembrance of the past.

Ovid
Past, Remembrance, Doe

Brass shines with constant usage, a beautiful dress needs wearing,Leave a house empty, it rots.

Ovid
Beautiful, House, Shining

Time is generally the best doctor.

Ovid
Time, Doctors, Medical

I flee who chases me and chase who flees me.

Ovid
Ovid (1932). “The Love Books of Ovid”, p.71, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

Nothing is more useful to man that those arts which have no utility.

Ovid
Art, Men, Utility

Idleness ruins the constitution

Ovid
Ruins, Constitution, Idleness

Often a silent face has voice and words.

Ovid
Voice, Faces, Silent

There is no useful thing which may not be turned to an injurious purpose.

Ovid
Purpose, May, Useful Things

The cause is hidden, but the result is known. [Lat., Causa latet: vis est notissima.]

Ovid
Causes, Results, Known

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

Ovid
Grief, Grieving, Rage

The time will come when you will hate the sight of a mirror.

Ovid
Hate, Mirrors, Sight

Pure women are only those who have not been asked.

Ovid
Pure

The ungovernable passion for wealth. [Lat., Opum furiata cupido.]

Ovid
Passion, Wealth

The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.

Ovid
Reality, Oil, Lamps

Passion persuades me one way, reason another. I see the better and approve it, but I follow the worse.

Ovid
Passion, Way, Reason
Ovid (1994). “Metamorphoses: books I-VIII”

So long as you are secure you will count many friends; if your life becomes clouded you will be alone.

Ovid
Long, Secure, Clouded
Ovid (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)”, p.1315, Delphi Classics

All things change, nothing perishes.

Ovid
Change, Growth, Spirituality

When you have set yourself a task finish it.

Ovid
Tasks

All other creatures look down toward the earth, but man was given a face so that might turn his eyes toward the stars and his gaze upon the sky.

Ovid
Stars, Eye, Men

Tis not always in a physician's power to cure the sick; at times the disease is stronger than trained art.

Ovid
Art, Sick, Stronger
Pontic Epistles I.III.17

Love and dignity do not dwell together.

Ovid
Together, Dignity

Keep thy hook always baited, for a fish lurks even in the most unlikely swim.

Ovid
Swim, Hook, Unlikely

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