Ovid Quotes About Beauty
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Beauty is a fragile gift.
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Beauty, if you do not open your doors, takes age from lack of use.
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A frail gift is beauty, which grows less as time draws on, and is devoured by its own years.
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A good disposition is a virtue in itself, and it is lasting; the burden of the years cannot depress it, and love that is founded on it endures to the end.
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I would that you were either less beautiful, or less corrupt. Such perfect beauty does not suit such imperfect morals. [Lat., Aut formosa fores minus, aut minus improba vellem. Non facit ad mores tam bona forma malos.]
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Great is the strife between beauty and modesty.
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Beauty is a frail good.
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A pleasing countenance is no slight disadvantage. [Lat., Auxilium non leve vultus habet.]
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A pleasing face is no small advantage.
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Judgement of beauty can err, what with the wine and the dark.
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Beauty is heaven's gift, and how few can boast of beauty.
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Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.
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Take the advice of light when you're looking at linens or jewels; Looking at faces or forms, take the advice of the day.
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