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Giving calls for genius. — Ovid

The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting. — Ovid

Skill makes love unending. — Ovid

Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay. — Ovid

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

It's a kindness that the mind can go where it wishes. — Ovid

The poet's labors are a work of joy, and require peace of mind. — Ovid

We take no pleasure in permitted joys,
But what's forbidden is more keenly sought. — Ovid

Pride is innate in beauty, and haughtiness is the companion of the fair. — Ovid

It's useful that there should be Gods, so let's believe there are. — Ovid

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

For God's sake, man," Ovid nearly shouted, "the damn globe is catching fire, and the islands are drowning. The evidence is staring them in the face. — Barbara Kingsolver

Love's dominion, like a kings, admits of no partition. — Ovid

When the character's right, looks are a greater delight. — Ovid

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

That's one of the greatest curses ever inflicted on the human race, memory. — Ovid

Destroy our leisure and you break love's bow. — Ovid

Take away leisure and Cupid's bow is broken — Ovid

Nothing aids which may not also injure us.
Fire serves us well, but he who plots to burn
His neighbor's roof arms his hands with fire. — Ovid

And warns us to use life's beauty as it blooms. The thorn is spurned when the rose has dropped. — Ovid

Alas! how difficult it is not to betray one's guilt by one's looks. — Ovid

Remove the temptation of idleness and Cupid's bow is useless. — Ovid

Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality. — Ovid

Rare is the virtue that's not ruled by Fortune,
That stands unshaken even when Fortune flees. — Ovid

Our neighbour's crop is always more fruitful and his cattle produce more milk than our own. — Ovid

The crop always seems better in our neighbor's field, and our neighbor's cow gives more milk. — Ovid

Let others seek safety. Nothing is safer than misfortune,
Where there's no fear of greater ill to come. — Ovid

Fas est ab hoste doceri.
One should learn even from one's enemies. — Ovid

Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned. — Ovid

Women's words are as light as the doomed leaves whirling in autumn, Easily swept by the wind, easily drowned by the wave. — Ovid

Occupy yourself, and you will be out of harm's way. — Ovid

Who gives to Aristaeus honey;
Or wine to Bacchus, or Triptolemus
Earth's fruits, or apples to Alcinous? — Ovid

Man's last day must ever be awaited and none to be
counted happy until his death, until his last funeral rites
are paid. — Ovid

There is a good deal in a man's mode of eating. — Ovid

When I was from Cupid's passions free, my Muse was mute and wrote no elegy. — Ovid

Not for any one man's delight has Nature made
the sun, the wind, the waters; all are free. — Ovid

Her clear conscience mocked rumour's mendacity, But we are a mob prone to credit sin. — Ovid

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

Tis base to plead the unhappy prisoner's cause,
With eloquence that's bought. — Ovid

Sleep, nature's rest, divine tranquility, That brings peace to the mind ... — Ovid

Put faith in one who's had experience. — Ovid

According to the state of a man's conscience, so do hope and fear on account of his deeds arise in his mind. — Ovid

The sea's vast depths lie open to the fish;
Wherever the breezes blow the bird may fly;
So to the brave man every land's a home. — Ovid

The judge's duty is to inquire about the time, as well as the facts. — Ovid

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

Tis not always in a physician's power to cure the sick; at times the disease is stronger than trained art. — Ovid

With patience bear what pains you have deserved,
Grieve, if you will, over what's unmerited. — Ovid

Some wounds grow worse beneath the surgeon's hand;
Better that they were not touched at all. — Ovid

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

Beauty is heaven's gift, and how few can boast of beauty. — Ovid

There is nothing constant in the universe. All ebb and flow, and every shape that's born, bears in its womb the seeds of change. — Ovid

156. By faithful study of the nobler arts, our nature's softened, and more gentle grows. — Ovid

It's right to learn, even from the enemy. — Ovid

If the subject's easy we may all be wise;
What stands unfirm, the smallest force overthrows. — Ovid

A burthen cheerfully borne becomes light — Ovid

Pedigree and ancestry and what we ourselves have not achieved, I scarcely recognize as our own. — Ovid

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

He who would not be idle, let him fall in love. — Ovid

A man is sorry to be honest for nothing. — Ovid

My bark, once struck by the fury of the storm, dreads again to approach the place of danger. — Ovid

When lizard-footed giants climbed the hills And with a hundred hands clawed at the sky. — Ovid

You will be safest in the middle. — Ovid

A field becomes exhausted by constant tillage. — Ovid

There is a god within us. — Ovid

She only is chaste, who is chaste where there is no danger of detection: she who does not, because she may not, does. — Ovid

I am above being injured by fortune, though she steals away much, more will remain with me. The blessing I now enjoy transcend fear. — Ovid

Love is a credulous thing. — Ovid

Pluck with quick hand the fruit that passes. — Ovid

Where crime is taught from early years, it becomes a part of nature. — Ovid

And besides, we lovers fear everything — Ovid

Diseases of the mind impair the bodily powers. — Ovid

There is no need of words; believe facts.
[Lat., Non opus est verbis, credite rebus.] — Ovid

Love is no assignment for cowards. — Ovid

Chaste is she whom no one has asked. — Ovid

I see and praise what is better, but follow what is worse. — Ovid

Fortune and love favor the brave. — Ovid

Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign. — Ovid

Stones are hollowed out by the constant dropping of water. — Ovid

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

You put aside the work that's done, and seek some work to do. — Ovid

Women can always be caught; that's the first rule of the game. — Ovid

A woman is a creature that's always shopping. — Ovid

Seeking is all very well, but holding requires greater talent: Seeking involves some luck; now the demand is for skill. — Ovid

The bold adventurer succeeds the best. — Ovid

Pleasure is sweetest when 'tis paid for by another's pain. — Ovid

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

The rest of the crowd were friends of my fortune, not of me.
[Lat., Caetera fortunae, non mea, turba fuit.] — Ovid

in Ovid, difficulty is what wakes up the genius (ingenium mala saepe movent), — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Argus, you are fallen, and the light in all your lamps is utterly put out: one hundred eyes, one darkness all the same! — Ovid

Love will enter cloaked in friendship's name. — Ovid

If it were in my power, I would be wiser; but a newly felt power carries me off in spite of myself; love leads me one way, my understanding another. — Ovid

Gold will buy the highest honours; and gold will purchase love. — Ovid

What ignorance there is in human minds. — Ovid

Small minds are captivated by trifles. — Ovid

By constant dripping, water hollows stone,
A signet-ring from use alone grows thin,
And the curved plowshare by soft earth is worn. — Ovid

Tis best to be silent in a bad cause. — Ovid

Suppressed pain chokes us; in our breasts
It surges, adding ever to its strength. — Ovid

Our native land charms us with inexpressible sweetness, and never, never allows us to forget that we belong to it. — Ovid

Gifts, believe me, captivate both men and Gods, Jupiter himself was won over and appeased by gifts. — Ovid

Leave war to others; 'tis Protesilaus' part of love. — Ovid