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Ovid

89 quotes

• “Fas est et ab hoste doceri.”

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

  Also quoted by: English proverb (english)

• “qui, quoniam prohibent anni bellare, loquendo pugnat et incessit scelerataque devovet arma.”

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• “Usus communis aquarum est. Nec solem proprium natura nec aera fecit nec tenues undas”

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• “Video meliora, proboque, deteriora sequor.”

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  Also quoted by: Publius Ovidius Naso (la)

• “Et ignotas animum dimittit in artes.”

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• “Insruit et natum: Medioque ut limite curras, Icare, ait, moneo. Ne, si demissior ibis, Unda gravet pennas; si celsior, ignis adurat. Inter utrumque vola.”

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• “Ille quidem est oculis quamvis formosus iniquis”

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• “Sunt superis sua iura”

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• “Quae mea culpa tamen? Nisi si lusisse vocari culpa potest, nisi culpa potest et amasse vocari.”

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• “Ars adeo latet arte sua.”

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• “Nam genus et proavos et quae non fecimus ipsi, Vix ea nostra voco.”

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• “Tibi dextera bello utilis: ingenium est, quod eget moderamine nostro; tu vires sine mente geris, mihi cura futuri; tu pugnare potes, pugnandi tempora mecum eligit Atrides; tu tantum corpore prodes, nos animo; quantoque ratem qui temperat, anteit remigis officium, quanto dux milite maior, tantum ego te supero; nec non in corpore nostro pectora sunt potiora manu: vigor omnis in illis.”

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• “Invia virtuti nulla est via!”

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• “Ego pulveris hausti ostendens cumulum, quot haberet corpora pulvis, tot mihi natales contingere vana rogavi; excidit, ut peterem iuvenes quoque protinus annos.”

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• “Parcite, mortales, dapibus temerare nefandis corpora! sunt fruges, sunt deducentia ramos pondere poma suo tumidaeque in vitibus uvae, sunt herbae dulces, sunt quae mitescere flamma mollirique queant; nec vobis lacteus umor eripitur, nec mella thymi redolentia florem: prodiga divitias alimentaque mitia tellus suggerit atque epulas sine caede et sanguine praebet.”

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• “Heu quantum scelus est in viscera viscera condi ingestoque avidum pinguescere corpore corpus alteriusque animans animantis vivere leto! Scilicet in tantis opibus, quas, optima matrum, terra parit, nil te nisi tristia mandere saevo vulnera dente iuvat ritusque referre Cyclopum, nec, nisi perdideris alium, placare voracis et male morati poteris ieiunia ventris!”

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• “Omnia mutantur, nihil interit.”

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• “Tempus edax rerum.”

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

• “Nec species sua cuique manet, rerumque novatrix ex aliis alias reparat natura figuras: nec perit in toto quicquam, mihi credite, mundo, sed variat faciemque novat, nascique vocatur incipere esse aliud, quam quod fuit ante, morique desinere illud idem. cum sint huc forsitan illa, haec translata illuc, summa tamen omnia constant.”

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• “Nomenque erit indelebile nostrum.”

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• “Carmina proveniunt animo deducta sereno.”

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• “Donec eris sospes, multos numerabis amicos: tempora si fuerint nubila, solus eris.”

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• “Horrea formicae tendunt ad inania numquam: nullus ad amissas ibit amicus opes.”

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• “Crede mihi, bene qui latuit bene vixit, et intra Fortunam debet quisque manere suam.”

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• “Quo quisque est maior, magis est placabilis irae, et faciles motus mens generosa capit. corpora magnanimo satis est prostrasse leoni, pugna suum finem, cum iacet hostis, habet: at lupus et turpes instant morientibus ursi et quaecumque minor nobilitate fera. maius apud Troiam forti quid habemus Achille? Dardanii lacrimas non tulit ille senis.”

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• “Vivere me dices, sed sic ut vivere nolim”

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• “Estque pati poenam quam meruisse minus.”

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• “Difficile est, fateor, sed tendit in ardua virtus et talis meriti gratia maior erit.”

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• “Turpe quidem dictu, sed, si modo vera fatemur, vulgus amicitias utilitate probat.”

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• “Nec facile invenias multis in milibus unum, virtutem pretium qui putet esse sui. ipse decor, recte facti si praemia desint, non movet, et gratis paenitet esse probum. nil nisi quod prodest carum est.”

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

  Recorded in: II, iii, 11-15; translation by Arthur Leslie Wheeler. Variant translation of gratis paenitet esse probum, in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 15th ed. (1980), p. 114: "It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

• “Adde quod ingenuas didicisse fideliter artes emollit mores nec sinit esse feros.”

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• “Ut desint vires, tamen est laudanda voluntas.”

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• “Laeta fere laetus cecini, cano tristia tristis.”

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• “Gutta cavat lapidem”

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  Also quoted by: Latin proverb (latin)

• “They come to see; they come that they themselves may be seen.”

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• “Nothing is stronger than custom.”

  Ovid (43 BC–17) said by 17 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source

• “Then the omnipotent Father with his thunder made Olympus tremble, and from Ossa hurled Pelion.”

  Ovid (43 BC–17) said by 17 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source

• “It is the mind that makes the man, and our vigour is in our immortal soul.”

  Ovid (43 BC–17) said by 17 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source

• “The mind, conscious of rectitude, laughed to scorn the falsehood of report.”

  Ovid (43 BC–17) said by 17 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source