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LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS - OVID QUOTES - Coggle Diagram
LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS - OVID QUOTES
ITS TIME TO TEACH YOU GIRLS
’Your art was lacking: love lasts long through art’
’There’ll be a time when you, who now shut out your lover, will lie alone, and aged, in the cold of night’
’Why waste the water if you’re not going to use it?’
TAKE CARE WITH HOW YOU LOOK
’The larger number among you lack such gifts’
’I congratulate myself on having been born just now’
MAKE-UP, BUT IN PRIVATE
’Many things that please when done, are ugly in the doing’
’We’ll think you too are sleeping while you do your face’
TASTE AND ELEGANCE IN HAIR AND DRESS
’There isn’t only one style: choose what suits each one’
CONCEAL YOUR DEFECTS
’Hide your body’s defects as best you may’
BE MODEST IN LAUGHTER AND MOVEMENT
’Who’d believe it girls must even learn to laugh’
‘There’s measure here as in most things’
LEARN MUSIC AND READ THE POETS
’For many your voice is a better procuress than your looks’
LEARN DANCING, GAMES
’Playing often brings on love’
BE SEEN AROUND
’A lovely woman must let people see her’
‘The wolf shadows many sheep, to snatch just one’
BEWARE OF FALSE LOVERS
’A man more delicate than you’
TAKE CARE WITH LETTERS
’Waiting around arouses love, if it’s only for a short time’
’Ah! How often a doubting lover’s been set on fire by letters’
AVOID THE VICES, FAVOUR THE PEOPLE
’Banish looks of anger from your face: bright peace suits human beings’
’A happy girl charms us cheerful people’
TRY YOUNG AND OLDER LOVERS
’Rider’ and ‘Horse’
‘Surrounded by high hedges’
’Your older warrior loves sensibly and wiser’
’He burns, alas, with slower fires, like wet straw’
USE JEALOUSY AND FEAR
’When the lover you’ve just caught falls into the net, let him think that only he has access to your room. Later let him sense a rival’
’Show signs of fear on your face…safe loving should be mixed with fright’
PLAY CLOAK AND DAGGER
’Theatres’
’Bona Dea’s temple’
MAKE HIM BELIEVE HE’S LOVED
’The bird doesn’t show the hunter where to find it’
’Feign grief over a rival’
WATCH HOW YOU EAT AND DRINK
’Come late…with pleasing delay: delay’s a grand seductress. Even if you’re plain, with drink you’ll seem beautiful’
AND SO TO BED
’She who’s known for her face, lie there face upwards’
’When you like it, show it with cries and panting breath’