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Ovid on Anniversary

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Time glides by with constant movement, not unlike a stream. For neither can a stream stay its course, nor can the fleeting hour.

Let him who loves, where love success may find,
Spread all his sails before the prosp'rous wind;
But let poor youths who female scorn endure,
And hopeless burn, repair to me for cure.

Let love steal in disguised as friendship.

While I am speaking the hour flies.

If you want to be loved, be lovable.

If it were in my power, I would be wiser; but a newly felt power carries me off in spite of myself; love leads me one way, my understanding another.

Ah me! love can not be cured by herbs.

The good of other times let people state;
I think it lucky I was born so late.

Time is generally the best medicine.

Love yields to business. If you seek a way out of love, be busy; you'll be safe then.

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

Love is a thing full of anxious fears.

Time, the devourer of all things.

Her head was bare;
But for her native ornament of hair;
Which in a simple knot was tied above,
Sweet negligence, unheeded bait of love!

Time that devours all things.

Love is a kind of warfare.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ovid (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.