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Ovid Quotes about Life

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Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.

Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.

Ovid
Inspirational, Life, Motivational

What is harder than rock, or softer than water? Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere.

Ovid
Life, Motivational, Rocks

If you want to be loved, be lovable.

Ovid
Love, Inspirational, Life

Change is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid
Inspirational, Life, Positive

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

Ovid
Life, Falling In Love, Men

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

Ovid
Life, God, God Life

Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships, the poor man everywhere lies low.

Ovid
Life, Success, Money

The glow of inspiration warms us; it is a holy rapture.

Ovid
Life, Inspiration, Holy

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

If you give up your quiet life, the bow of Cupid will lose its power.

Ovid
Life, Giving Up, Bows

All human things hang on a slender thread, the strongest fall with a sudden crash.

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Love, Life, Fall

Let love steal in disguised as friendship.

Ovid
Life, Stealing
Ovid (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)”, p.311, Delphi Classics

Love is a thing full of anxious fears.

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Life, Love Is, Anxious

Majesty and love do not well agree, nor do they live together.

Ovid
Life, Together, And Love

Love that is fed by jealousy dies hard.

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Life, Jealousy, Envy
Ovid (1932). “The Love Books of Ovid”, p.216, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid
Life, Death, Evil

Ah me! love can not be cured by herbs.

Ovid
Love, Life, Valentines Day

Courage conquers all things.

Ovid
Life, Courage, Conquer
Ovid (1988). “Tristia”, Loeb Classical Library

It is not safe to despise what Love commands. He reigns supreme, and rules the mighty gods.

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Life, Safe, Reign

Love is a credulous thing.

Ovid
Life, Love Is
Ovid (1852). “The Heroides: Or Epistles of the Heroines, The Amours, Art of Love, Remedy of Love and Minor Works of Ovid”, p.52

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