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The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool.

The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool.

Ovid
Men, Fire, May

A wealthy traveller fears an ambush, while one with empty pockets journeys on in safety.

Ovid
Journey, Safety, Pockets

I am dragged along by a strange new force. Desire and reason are pulling in different directions. I see the right way and approve it, but follow the wrong.

Ovid
Desire, Different, Way

How little you know about the age you live in if you think that honey is sweeter than cash in hand

Ovid
Money, Thinking, Hands

Those gifts are ever more precious which the giver has made precious.

Ovid
Made, Giver

The bold adventurer succeeds the best.

Ovid
Adventure, Succeed, Life Adventure
Ovid (1833). “Ovid”, p.237

Envy assails the noblest: the winds howl around the highest peaks.

Ovid
Jealousy, Wind, Envy

"Gutta cavat lapidem." (Dripping water carves a stone.)

Ovid
Water, Stones, Dripping Water

He who has it in his power to commit sin, is less inclined to do so. The very idea of being able, weakens the desire.

Ovid
Ideas, Desire, Able

Every one who repeats it adds something to the scandal. [The rolling snow-ball.]

Ovid
Snow, Rolling, Add

Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses.

Ovid
Flower, Rose, Joy

Give way to your opponent; thus will you gain the crown of victory.

Ovid
Giving, Victory, Crowns

When there is plenty of wine, sorrow and worry take wing.

Ovid
Wine, Wings, Worry

Haste is productive of injury, and so is too much hesitation. He is the wisest man who does everything at the proper time.

Ovid
Men, Wisest Man, Too Much

A woman is a creature that's always shopping.

Ovid
Women, Shopping, Creatures

The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.

Ovid
Men, Sea, Sailing

Tears at times have the weight of speech.

Ovid
Tears, Weight, Speech

The mind ill at ease, the body suffers also.

Ovid
Mind, Suffering, Ease

Yield to him who opposes you; by yielding you conquer.

Ovid
Yield, Understanding, Conquer

Great talents, by the rust of long disuse, Grow lethargic and shrink from what they were.

Ovid
Long, Rust, Talent

Love is a thing that is full of cares and fears.

Ovid
Short Love, Love Is, Care

Let the man who does not wish to be idle, fall in love.

Ovid
Life, Falling In Love, Men

First try all other means, but if the wound Heal not, then use the knife, lest to the clean From the diseased the canker spread.

Ovid
Mean, Knives, Trying

This also, that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid
Life, God, God Life

As the hawk is wont to pursue the trembling doves.

Ovid
Hawks, Dove, Trembling
Ovid (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)”, p.869, Delphi Classics

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