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The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.

The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.

Ovid
Flower, Rose, Ancestry

There is something in omens.

Ovid
Magic, Omen
Ovid (1852). “Ovid”, p.291

The laws allow arms to be taken against an armed foe.

Ovid
Taken, Law, Arms
Ovid, G. P. Goold (1985). “The art of love, and other poems”

Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.

Ovid
Fear, Men, Wish

Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.

Ovid
Health, Medicine, Nurse
Tristia

A good disposition is a virtue in itself, and it is lasting; the burden of the years cannot depress it, and love that is founded on it endures to the end.

Ovid
Happiness, Beauty, Depressing
Ovid (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)”, p.290, Delphi Classics

Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.

Ovid
Heart, My Heart, Affectionate

Let the poor man mind his tongue

Ovid
Men, Mind, Tongue

The mind, conscious of rectitude, laughed to scorn the falsehood of report.

Ovid
Mind, Conscious, Rectitude

What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless.

Ovid
Sad, Pain, Grief

It is a pleasure appropriate to man, for him to save a fellow-man, and gratitude is acquired in no better way.

Ovid
Gratitude, Men, Fellow Man

What we call birth Is but a beginning to be something else Than what we were before; and when we cease To be that something, then we call it death.

Ovid
Death, Birth, Cease

Riches, the incentives to evil, are dug out of the earth.

Ovid
Evil, Earth, Incentives

God gave man an upright countenance to survey the heavens, and to look upward to the stars.

Ovid
Stars, Men, Heaven

Lente, lente currite, noctis equi. Translation: Run slowly, slowly, horses of the night.

Ovid
Running, Horse, Night

To give requires good sense.

Ovid
Inspiring, Giving, Charity

While I am speaking the opportunity is lost.

Ovid
Opportunity, Lost

Use the occasion, for it passes swiftly.

Ovid
Opportunity, Use, Occasions

We two are to ourselves a crowd.

Ovid
Two, Crowds

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid
Time, Years, Time Management

Wind feeds the fire, and wind extinguishes: The flames are nourished by a gentle breeze, Yet, if it stronger grows, they sink and die.

Ovid
Love, Fire, Flames

The burden becomes light that is shared by love.

Ovid
Love, Light, Burden

To wish is of little account; to succeed you must earnestly desire; and this desire must shorten thy sleep.

Ovid
Ambition, Sleep, Wish

God himself helps those who dare.

Ovid
Helping, Self Help, Dare
Ovid (1946). “Ovid: Metamorphoses”

If he did not succeed, he at least failed in a glorious undertaking.

Ovid
Success, Succeed, Glorious

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