Ovid Quotes About Art
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Tis not always in a physician's power to cure the sick; at times the disease is stronger than trained art.
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Art lies in concealing art.
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It is no less a feat to keep what you have, than to increase it. In one there is chance, the other will be a work of art.
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From high Meonia's rocky shores I came, Of poor decsent, Acoetes is my name, My sire was measly born: no oxen ploughed, His fruitful fields, nor in his pastures lowed, His whole estate within the waters lay' With lines and hooks he caught the finny prey; His art was all his livelehood, which he Thus with his dying lips bequeathed to me: In streams, my boy, and rivers take thy chance; There swims', said he, Thy whole inheritance.
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It is art to conceal art. -Ars est celare artem
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Nothing is more useful to man that those arts which have no utility.
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Everyone is desirous of his own pursuits, and loves To spend his time in his accustomed art.
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By arts, sails, and oars, ships are rapidly moved; arts move the light chariot, and establish love. [Lat., Arte citae veloque rates remoque moventur; Arte levis currus, arte regendus Amor.]
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The art of medicine in the season lies: Wine given in season oft will benefit, Which out of season injures.
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Art is most effective when concealed.
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Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.
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To be thoroughly imbued, with the liberal arts refines the manners, and makes men to be mild and gentle in their conduct.
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Take this at least, this last advice, my son: Keep a stiff rein, and move but gently on: The coursers of themselves will run too fast, Your art must be to moderate their haste.
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Adde, quod ingénues didicisse fideliter artes Emollit mores, nec sinit esse fervos. To be instructed in the arts, softens the manners and makes men gentle.
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If the art is concealed, it succeeds.
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Art lies by its own artifice.
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It is expedient that there should be gods, and, since it is expedient, let us believe that gods exist.
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By faithful study of the nobler arts, our nature's softened, and more gentle grows.
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