187 ordspråk av Publius Ovidius Naso
Publius Ovidius Naso
We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.
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We two are to ourselves a crowd.
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Well has he lived who has lived well in obscurity.
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What is allowed us is disagreeable, what is denied us causes us intense desire.
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What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless.
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What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless.
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What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps; with it alone, she lives.
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What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.
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What is without periods of rest will not endure.
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What makes men indifferent to their wives is that they can see them when they please.
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What one beholds of a woman is the least part of her
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When disposition wins us, the features please.
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Whether a pretty woman grants or withholds her favors, she always likes to be asked for them
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Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.
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Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.
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