Ovid Quotes
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What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.
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What is without periods of rest will not endure.
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What makes men indifferent to their wives is that they can see them when they please.
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What one beholds of a woman is the least part of her.
[Women]
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When I was from Cupid's passions free, my Muse was mute and wrote no eulegy.
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Where belief is painful we are slow to believe.
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Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.
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Whether they give or refuse, women are glad to have been asked.
[Women]
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Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.
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While prosperous you can number many friends; but when the storm comes you are left alone.
[Prosperity]
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Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.
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Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.
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You can learn from anyone even your enemy.
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You will go most safely in the middle.
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