Ovid Quotes

There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.

Ovid

Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength.

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

Ovid

Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.

Ovid

No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.

Ovid

Alas! How difficult it is to prevent the countenance from betraying guilt!

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Forbear to lay the guilt of a few on the many.

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Happy the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying, once and for all.

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Time is generally the best doctor

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Time is generally the best doctor

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The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.

Ovid

Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.

Ovid

In sweet water there is a pleasure ungrudged by anyone.

Ovid

Skilled in every trick, a worthy heir of his paternal craft, he would make black look like white, and white look black.

Ovid

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid