Quotes by Ovid

• Use the occasion, for it passes swiftly.
• Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason.
• To feel our ills is one thing, but to cure them is another.
• Time, the devourer of all things.
• Time, motion and wine cause sleep.
• Time is the devourer of all things.
• Time is generally the best doctor.
• Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves.
• There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
• Venus favors the bold.
• There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.
• Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.
• You can learn from anyone even your enemy.
• We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.
• You will go most safely in the middle.
• There is a god within us.
• Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.
• Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.
• Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.
• What makes men indifferent to their wives is that they can see them when they please.
• What is without periods of rest will not endure.
• What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.
• What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps; with it alone, she lives.
• Where belief is painful we are slow to believe.
• What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless.
• He who says o'er much I love not is in love.
• If you want to be loved, be lovable.
• If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.
• I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement.
• How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.
• In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are.
• He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.
• It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.
• He who can believe himself well, will be well.
• Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.
• Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.
• Habits change into character.
• Give way to your opponent; thus will you gain the crown of victory.
• Fortune and love favor the brave.
• Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be fish.
• Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish.
• Love is full of anxious fears.
• Love is a thing that is full of cares and fears.
• Love is a kind of warfare.
• Love is a credulous thing.
• Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.
• In an easy matter. Anybody can be eloquent.
• Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.
• Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts.
• Let what is irksome become habitual, no more will it trouble you.
• Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.
• Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.
• Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.
• It is the poor man who'll ever count his flock.
• It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are.
• Little things please little minds.
• An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.
• Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.
• Beauty is a fragile gift.
• Bear patiently with a rival.
• Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.
• At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.
• First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, "I believe," three times.
• An evil life is a kind of death.
• Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery.
• All things can corrupt when minds are prone to evil.
• All love is vanquished by a succeeding love.
• Alas! how difficult it is not to betray one's guilt by one's looks.
• Ah me! love can not be cured by herbs.
• Against the bold, daring is unsafe.
• A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.
• Art lies by its own artifice.
• Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.
• A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.
• Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.
• Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned.
• Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.
• Every lover is a soldier.
• Envy aims very high.
• Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.
• Either do not attempt at all, or go through with it.
• Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.
• Majesty and love do not consort well together, nor do they dwell in the same place.
• Daring is not safe against daring men.
• Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.
• A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
• A man is sorry to be honest for nothing.
• First appearance deceives many.
• Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.
• The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.
• The bold adventurer succeeds the best.
• The burden which is well borne becomes light.
• The cause is hidden; the effect is visible to all.
• The gods behold all righteous actions.
• The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late.
• Make the workmanship surpass the materials.
• The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool.
• Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength.
• The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.
• The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal.
• The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.
• The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.
• The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.
• The vulgar crowd values friends according to their usefulness.
• The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.
• No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.
• Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.
• Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.
• Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
• Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.
• Most safely shall you tread the middle path.
• My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.
• Tears at times have the weight of speech.
• Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.
• Take rest; a field that has rested gives a beautiful crop.
• Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
• Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.
• Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships; the poor man everywhere lies low.
• Often they benefit who suffer wrong.
• People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.
• The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.
• Neglect of appearance becomes men.