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I grabbed a pile of dust, and holding it up, foolishly asked for as many birthdays as the grains of dust, I forgot to ask that they be years of youth.

I grabbed a pile of dust, and holding it up, foolishly asked for as many birthdays as the grains of dust, I forgot to ask that they be years of youth.

Ovid
Happy Birthday, Dust, Years

As the mind of each man is conscious of good or evil, so does he conceive within his breast hope or fear, according to his actions.

Ovid
Men, Evil, Mind
Ovid (1851). “The Fasti ; Tristia ; Pontic epistles ; Ibis ; and Halieuticon of Ovid”, p.31

Small minds are captivated by trifles.

Ovid
Mind, Trifles, Small Minds

The end doesn't justify the means.

Ovid
Inspirational, Mean, Ends

The more they drink the more they thirst.

Ovid
Drink, Thirst
Ovid, Betty Rose Nagle (1995). “Ovid's Fasti: Roman Holidays”, p.200, Indiana University Press

Lovers remember everything. [Lat., Meminerunt omnia amantes.]

Ovid
Remembers Everything, Lovers, Remember

Happy the man who can count his sufferings.

Ovid
Men, Suffering, He Man

We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.

Ovid
Desire, Coveting, Strive

Thus I am not able to exist either with you or without you; and I seem not to know my own wishes.

Ovid
Life, Wish, Able

Venus favors the bold.

Ovid
Favors, Venus, Flirtation
Ovid (1997). “Ovid's Metamorphoses”, p.422, University of Oklahoma Press

Happy is he who dares courageously to defend what he loves.

Ovid
Love, Positive, Happy

You can learn from anyone even your enemy.

Ovid
Learning, Enemy, Teachability

There is some joy in weeping. For our tears Fill up the cup, then wash our pain away.

Ovid
Pain, Joy, Sorrow

Spare the soul that feels a deadly wound.

Ovid
Soul, Injury, Feels

Pleasant words are the food of love.

Ovid
Pleasant
Ovid (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)”, p.316, Delphi Classics

Luck affects everything; let your hook always be cast.

Ovid
Good Luck, Lucky Day, Hook

If God be my friend, I cannot be wretched.

Ovid
God, Wretched, My Friends

You will go most safely in the middle.

Ovid
Safety, Middle
Metamorphoses bk. 2, l. 137

The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.

Ovid
Punishment, Prison, Crime

The whole earth is the brave man's country. [Lat., Omne solum forti patria est.]

Ovid
Country, Men, Brave

Nothing retains its form; new shapes from old. Nature, the great inventor, ceaselessly contrives. In all creation, be assured, there is no death - no death, but only change and innovation; what we men call birth is but a different new beginning; death is but to cease to be the same. Perhaps this may have moved to that, and that to this, yet still the sum of things remains the same.

Ovid
Death, New Beginnings, Men
Ovid,, A. D. Melville, E. J. Kenney (2008). “Metamorphoses”, p.359, Oxford University Press

A burthen cheerfully borne becomes light

Ovid
Light

There is a certain pleasure in weeping.

Ovid
Cry, Pleasure, Certain
Ovid (1879). “Ovid”

We are charmed by neatness: Let not your hair be out of order. [Lat., Munditiis capimur: non sine lege capilli.]

Ovid
Hair, Order, Charmed

It is a kingly act to help the fallen.

Ovid
Helping, Fallen

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