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Ovid

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• “Res est solliciti plena timoris amor.”

  Ovid (43 BC–17) said by 17 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Iam seges est ubi Troia fuit.”

  Ovid (43 BC–17) said by 17 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Tarde quae credita laedunt credimus.”

  Ovid (43 BC–17) said by 17 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Exitus acta probat.”

  Ovid (43 BC–17) said by 17 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Also quoted by: Ignatius of Loyola (misattributed)

• “Abeunt studia in mores.”

  Ovid (43 BC–17) said by 17 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Siquis amat quod amare iuvat, feliciter ardens Gaudeat, et vento naviget ille suo. At siquis male fert indignae regna puellae, Ne pereat, nostrae sentiat artis opem.”

  Ovid (43 BC–17) said by 17 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Principiis obsta; sero medicina paratur Cum mala per longas convaluere moras.”

  Ovid (43 BC–17) said by 17 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Qui finem quaeris amoris, Cedit amor rebus; res age, tutus eris.”

  Ovid (43 BC–17) said by 17 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Di pia facta vident.”

  Ovid (43 BC–17) said by 17 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Est deus in nobis; agitante calescimus illo: impetus hic sacrae semina mentis habet.”

  Ovid (43 BC–17) said by 17 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Conscia mens recti famae mendacia risit”

  Ovid (43 BC–17) said by 17 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Militat omnis amans”

  Ovid (43 BC–17) said by 17 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Also quoted by: Publius Ovidius Naso (la)

• “Qui nolet fieri desidiosus, amet!”

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• “Procul omen abesto!”

  Ovid (43 BC–17) said by 17 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Aequo animo poenam, qui meruere, ferunt.”

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• “Quod licet ingratum est. Quod non licet acrius urit.”

  Ovid (43 BC–17) said by 17 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Cui peccare licet, peccat minus.”

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• “Nitimur in vetitum semper, cupimusque negata.”

  Ovid (43 BC–17) said by 17 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Sic ego nec sine te nec tecum vivere possum.”

  Ovid (43 BC–17) said by 17 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Spectatum veniunt, veniunt spectentur ut ipsae.”

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• “Nocte latent mendae, vitioque ignoscitur omni, Horaque formosam quamlibet illa facit.”

  Ovid (43 BC–17) said by 17 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Aut non rem temptes aut perfice.”

  Ovid (43 BC–17) said by 17 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Iuppiter ex alto periuria ridet amantum.”

  Ovid (43 BC–17) said by 17 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Expedit esse deos, et, ut expedit, esse putemus.”

  Ovid (43 BC–17) said by 17 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Neque enim lex aequior ulla est, Quam necis artifices arte perire sua.”

  Ovid (43 BC–17) said by 17 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Intret amicitiae nomine tectus amor.”

  Ovid (43 BC–17) said by 17 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Book I, line 720; translated by J. Lewis May in The Love Books of Ovid, 1930

• “Ut ameris, amabilis esto.”

  Ovid (43 BC–17) said by 17 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Forma bonum fragile est.”

  Ovid (43 BC–17) said by 17 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Si nec blanda satis, nec erit tibi comis amanti, Perfer et obdura: postmodo mitis erit. Flectitur obsequio curvatus ab arbore ramus: Frangis, si vires experiere tuas. Obsequio tranantur aquae: nec vincere possis Flumina, si contra, quam rapit unda, nates.”

  Ovid (43 BC–17) said by 17 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Pauperibus vates ego sum, quia pauper amavi; Cum dare non possem munera, verba dabam.”

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• “Cede repugnanti; cedendo victor abibis.”

  Ovid (43 BC–17) said by 17 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Militiae species amor est.”

  Ovid (43 BC–17) said by 17 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Dum novus errat amor, vires sibi colligat usu: Si bene nutrieris, tempore firmus erit. Quem taurum metuis, vitulum mulcere solebas: Sub qua nunc recubas arbore, virga fuit: Nascitur exiguus, sed opes adquirit eundo, Quaque venit, multas accipit amnis aquas.”

  Ovid (43 BC–17) said by 17 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Nil adsuetudine maius.”

  Ovid (43 BC–17) said by 17 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Da requiem: requietus ager bene credita reddit”

  Ovid (43 BC–17) said by 17 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Quod male fers, adsuesce, feres bene.”

  Ovid (43 BC–17) said by 17 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Utendum est aetate: cito pede labitur aetas.”

  Ovid (43 BC–17) said by 17 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Nostra sine auxilio fugiunt bona; carpite florem, Qui, nisi carptus erit, turpiter ipse cadet.”

  Ovid (43 BC–17) said by 17 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Continua messe senescit ager.”

  Ovid (43 BC–17) said by 17 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Casus ubique valet; semper tibi pendeat hamus Quo minime credas gurgite, piscis erit.”

  Ovid (43 BC–17) said by 17 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Candida pax homines, trux decet ira feras.”

  Ovid (43 BC–17) said by 17 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Est deus in nobis, et sunt commercia caeli: Sedibus aetheriis spiritus ille venit.”

  Ovid (43 BC–17) said by 17 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Chaos, rudis indigestaque moles.”

  Ovid (43 BC–17) said by 17 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Sanctius his animal mentisque capacius altae Deerat adhuc et quod dominari in cetera posset: Natus homo est.”

  Ovid (43 BC–17) said by 17 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Pronaque quum spectent animalia cetera terram, Os homini sublime dedit, coelumque tueri Jussit, et erectos ad sidera tollere vultus.”

  Ovid (43 BC–17) said by 17 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Tum pater omnipotens misso perfregit Olympum fulmine et excussit subiectae Pelion Ossae.”

  Ovid (43 BC–17) said by 17 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Materiam superabat opus”

  Ovid (43 BC–17) said by 17 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Medio tutissimus ibis.”

  Ovid (43 BC–17) said by 17 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Inopem me copia fecit.”

  Ovid (43 BC–17) said by 17 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Causa latet, vis est notissima”

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