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Elegist Inspirational Quotes (531)

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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?
Ovid
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All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward all things are brought into being with a changing nature the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.
Ovid
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This upper limit, of earth at our feet is visible and touches the air, but below it reaches to infinity
Xenophanes
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It isn't right to judge strength as better than good wisdom.
Xenophanes
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If cows and horses had hands and could draw, cows would draw gods that look like cows and horses would draw gods that look like horses.
Xenophanes
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If cattle and horses, or lions, had hands...
Xenophanes
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God is one, supreme among gods and men, and not like mortals in body or in mind.The whole [of god] sees, the whole perceives, the whole hears. But without effort he sets in motion all things by mind and thought.
Xenophanes
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In the beginning the gods did not at all reveal all things clearly to mortals, but by searching men in the course of time find them out better.
Xenophanes
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No man knows distinctly anything, and no man ever will.
Xenophanes
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The sea is the source of water and the source of wind for neither would blasts of wind arise in the clouds and blow out from within them, except for the great sea, nor would the streams of rivers nor the rain-water in the sky exist but for the sea but the great sea is the begetter of clouds and winds and rivers.
Xenophanes
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If oxen and lions had hands and could paint with their hands and produce works of art, as men do, horses would paint the forms of the gods likes horses and oxen like oxen. Each would represent them with bodies according to the bodies of each. So the Ethiopians make their gods black and snub-nosed the Thracians give theirs red hair and blue eyes.
Xenophanes
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...for our wisdom is better than the strength of men or of horses. ... nor is it right to prefer strength to excellent wisdom. For if there should be in the city [any athlete whose skill] is honoured more than strength ... the city would not on that account be any better governed.
Xenophanes
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Love's dominion, like a kings, admits of no partition.
Ovid
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The ungovernable passion for wealth. [Lat., Opum furiata cupido.]
Ovid
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Tempus edax rerum. Time that devours all things.
Ovid
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Zeus, the father of the Olympic Gods, turned mid-day into night, hiding the light of the dazzling Sun and sore fear came upon men.
Archilochus
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Thy destiny is only that of man, but thy aspirations may be those of a god.
Ovid
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The glow of inspiration warms us it is a holy rapture.
Ovid
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Take the joy and bear the sorrow, looking past your hopes and fears: learn to recognize the measured dance that orders all our years.
Archilochus
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I attempt an arduous task but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement
Ovid
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Hastiness is the beginning of wrath, and its end repentance.
Ovid
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Even if a man should chance to speak the most complete truth, yet he himself does not know it all things are wrapped in appearances
Xenophanes
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Suppressed pain chokes us in our breasts It surges, adding ever to its strength.
Ovid
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It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are.
Ovid
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