# Ovid

- Quotes: 36
- Author page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/ovid

## Books

- [Fasti](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ovid/fasti.md) — 5 quotes
- [Heroides](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ovid/heroides.md) — 10 quotes
- [Metamorphoses](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ovid/metamorphoses.md) — 51 quotes

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> No species remains constant: that great renovator of matter
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> Nature, endlessly fashions new forms from old: there’s nothing
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> in the whole universe that perishes, believe me; rather
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> it renews and varies its substance. What we describe as birth
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> is no more than incipient change from a prior state, while dying
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> is merely to quit it. Though the parts may be transported
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> hither and thither, the sum of all matter is constant.

> What, however, is my fault? Unless to have played can be called a fault, unless it can be called a fault to have loved.

> Your right arm is useful in the battle; but when it comes to thinking you need my guidance. You have force without intelligence; while mine is the care for to-morrow. You are a good fighter; but is I who help Atrides select the time of fighting. Your value is in your body only; mine, in mind. And, as much as he who directs the ship surpasses him who only rows it, as much as the general exceeds the common soldier, so much greater am I than you. For in these bodies of ours the heart is of more value than the hand; all our real living is in that.

> A creature of a more exalted kind
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> Was wanting yet, and then was Man designed;
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> Conscious of thought, of more capacious breast,
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> For empire formed, and fit to rule the rest.

> He is beautiful even to enemy eyes.

> Water belongs to us all. Nature did not make the sun one person's property, nor air, nor water, cool and clear.

> The cause is hidden, but the result is well known.

> The gods have their own rules.

> O mortals, from your fellows' blood abstain,
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> Nor taint your bodies with a food profane:
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> While corn, and pulse by Nature are bestow'd,
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> And planted orchards bend their willing load;
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> While labour'd gardens wholesom herbs produce,
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> And teeming vines afford their gen'rous juice;
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> Nor tardier fruits of cruder kind are lost,
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> But tam'd with fire, or mellow'd by the frost;
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> While kine to pails distended udders bring,
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> And bees their hony redolent of Spring;
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> While Earth not only can your needs supply,
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> But, lavish of her store, provides for luxury;
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> A guiltless feast administers with ease,
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> And without blood is prodigal to please.

> He, because years restrained him from warring, fought by speaking; he attacked and cursed the criminal weapons.

> And he turned his mind to unknown arts.

> Pointing to a pile of dust, that had collected, I foolishly begged to have as many anniversaries of my birth, as were represented by the dust. But I forgot to ask that the years should be accompanied by youth.