If you want to be loved, be lovable.
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More Ovid Quotes
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Time is generally the best doctor.
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Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.
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Love is the force that leaves you colorless.
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The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.
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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
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Death is less bitter punishment than death’s delay.
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What we have been, or now are, we shall not be tomorrow.
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A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man’s brow.
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It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are.
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Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.
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There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
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The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.
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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?
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You will go most safely by the middle way.
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Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts.
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