QUOTES by Ovid
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In the make-up of human beings, intelligence counts for more than our hands, and that is our true strength.
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Barbarus hic ego sum, quia non intelligor illis. (In this place I am a barbarian, because men do not understand me.)
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All right, boy, skewer me. I've dropped my defenses, I'm an easy victim. Why, by now Your arrows practically know their own way to the target And feel less at home in their quiver than in me.
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Eurydice, dying now a second time, uttered no complaint against her husband. What was there to complain of, but that she had been loved?
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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
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Saepe creat molles aspera spina rosas" - "Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses
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Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.
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Thus I am not able to exist either with you or without you; and I seem not to know my own wishes.
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A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.
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I am dragged along by a strange new force. Desire and reason are pulling in different directions. I see the right way and approve it, but follow the wrong.
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Give me the waters of Lethe that numb the heart, if they exist, I will still not have the power to forget you.
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I am the poet of the poor, because I was poor when I loved; since I could not give gifts, I gave words.
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Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.” "Be patient and tough; one day this pain will be useful to you.
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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.
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Perfer et obdura, dolor hic tibi proderit olim. (Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.)
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Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.
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