Ovid Quotes About Age
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If thou wishest to put an end to love, attend to business (love yields to employment); then thou wilt be safe. [Lat., Qui finem quaeris amoris, (Cedit amor rebus) res age; tutus eris.]
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Beauty, if you do not open your doors, takes age from lack of use.
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Simplicity, very rare in our age.
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Devouring Time and envious Age, all things yield to you; and with lingering death you destroy, step by step, with venomed tooth whatever you attack.
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While strength and years permit, endure labor; soon bent old age will come with silent foot. [Lat., Dum vires annique sinunt, tolerate labores. Jam veniet tacito curva senecta pede.]
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Work while your strength and years permit you; crooked age will by-and-by come upon you with silent foot.
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Today is truly the Golden Age: gold buys hornor, gold procures love
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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.
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All-devouring time, envious age, Nought can escape you, and by slow degrees, Worn by your teeth, all things will lingering die.
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How little you know about the age you live in if you think that honey is sweeter than cash in hand
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Truly now is the golden age; the highest honour comes by means of gold; by gold love is procured.
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That fair face will as years roll on lose its beauty, and old age will bring its wrinkles to the brow.
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