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Elegist Inspirational Quotes (531)

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A man gains no possession better than a good woman, nothing more horrible than a bad one.
Simonides of Ceos
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Fair peace becomes men ferocious anger belongs to beasts. [Lat., Candida pax homines, trux decet ira feras.]
Ovid
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Burdens become light when cheerfully borne.
Ovid
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Chaste is she whom no one has asked.
Ovid
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As the hawk is wont to pursue the trembling doves.
Ovid
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Bright youth passes swiftly as a thought.
Theognis of Megara
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Take this at least, this last advice, my son: Keep a stiff rein, and move but gently on: The coursers of themselves will run too fast, Your art must be to moderate their haste.
Ovid
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With wavering steps does fickle fortune stray, Nowhere she finds a firm and fixed abode But now all smiles, and now again all frowns, She's constant only in inconstancy.
Ovid
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Time was when genius was more precious than gold, but now to have nothing is monstrous barbarism.
Ovid
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Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.
Ovid
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I could live in the woods with thee in sight, Where never should human foot intrude: Or with thee find light in the darkest night, And a social crowd in solitude.
Tibullus
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Not to be born at all would be the best thing for man.
Theognis of Megara
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We do not bear sweets we are recruited by a bitter potion.
Ovid
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There is a God within us, and we glow when He stirs us.
Ovid
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Anything cracked will shatter at a touch.
Ovid
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When you have set yourself a task finish it.
Ovid
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A mind conscious of right laughs at the falsehoods of rumour. [Lat., Conscia mens recti famae mendacia risit.]
Ovid
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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
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Unless the gods deceive my mind , That man is forging fetters for himself.
Theognis of Megara
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Love presses my head with carefully placed feet, wretch that he is, until he has taught me to detest chaste girls, and to live with no counsel.
Propertius
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There is a good deal in a man's mode of eating.
Ovid
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In your judgment virtue requires no reward, and is to be sought for itself, unaccompanied by external benefits. [Lat., Judice te mercede caret, per seque petenda est Externis virtus incomitata bonis.]
Ovid
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Beauty is a frail good.
Ovid
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Deadly poisons are concealed under sweet honey.
Ovid
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