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We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.

We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.

Ovid
Life Changing, Inspiration, Desire

Bring a lawsuit against a man who can pay; the poor man's acts are not worth the expense

Ovid
Men, Pay, Poor

To dismiss a guest is a more ungracious act than not to admit him at all.

Ovid
Guests

Grief brims itself and flows away in tears.

Ovid
Grief, Tears, Flow

Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.

Ovid
Drinking, Paganism, Ancient

Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.

Ovid
Punishment, Delay, Bitterness

Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.

Ovid
Time, Hate, Anger

Chastity, once lost, cannot be recalled; it goes only once.

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Lost, Chastity

The rose is often found near the nettle.

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Rose, Found, Nettles

Gutta cavat lapidem, non vi sed saepe cadendo. (The drop excavates the stone, not with force but by falling often.)

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Fall, Stones, Evolution

O fool, what else is sleep but chill death's likeness?

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Death, Sleep, Fool

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

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Evil, Mind, May

An injury may prove a blessing.

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Blessing, May, Injury

It is but a small merit to observe silence, but it is a grave fault to speak of matters on which we should be silent.

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Silence, Matter, Faults

As wave is driven by wave And each, pursued, pursues the wave ahead, So time flies on and follows, flies, and follows, Always, for ever and new. What was before Is left behind; what never was is now; And every passing moment is renewed.

Ovid
Passing Moments, Time Flies, Wave
Ovid (1998). “Metamorphoses”, OUP Oxford

The mind grows sicker than the body in contemplation of it's suffering.

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Mind, Suffering, Body

Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves.

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Moving, Water, Sloth

I can't live without you or with you.

Ovid
Can't Live Without You, Without You, I Can

Those presents are the most acceptable which are enhanced by our regard for the donor.

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Donors, Regard, Acceptable

The mind that's conscious of its rectitude, Laughs at the lies of rumor.

Ovid
Integrity, Lying, Laughing

Live without envy, spend your peaceful years Unknown to fame, and choose your peers for friends.

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Friendship, Years, Envy

Love fed fat soon turns to boredom.

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Boredom, Feds, Fats
Ovid (1957). “The Loves: The Art of Beauty, The Remedies for Love, and The Art of Love”, p.65, Indiana University Press

A mind conscious of right laughs at the falsehoods of rumour. [Lat., Conscia mens recti famae mendacia risit.]

Ovid
Laughing, Mind, Conscious

I hate a woman who offers herself because she ought to do so, and cold and dry thinks of her sewing when making love.

Ovid
Hate, Thinking, Hypocrisy
Ovid (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)”, p.328, Delphi Classics

A safe pleasure is a tame pleasure.

Ovid
Safe, Pleasure
Ovid (1932). “The Love Books of Ovid”, p.189, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

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