Ovid Quotes

» Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be fish.

» Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.

» Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

» Fortune and love favor the brave.

» Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason.

» Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.

» An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

» Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength.

» Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves.

» 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.

» Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.

» The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool.

» 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.

» The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.

» Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish.

» Time, motion and wine cause sleep.

» There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.

» What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless.

» Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.

» First appearance deceives many.

» First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, "I believe," three times.

» 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.

» At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.

» You can learn from anyone even your enemy.

» Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts.

» Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.

» There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.

» Take rest; a field that has rested gives a beautiful crop.

» You will go most safely in the middle.

» Time, the devourer of all things.

» It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are.

» Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.

» What makes men indifferent to their wives is that they can see them when they please.

» Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.

» If you want to be loved, be lovable.

» Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.

» 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.

» Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

» A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.

» People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.

» Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.

» An evil life is a kind of death.

» We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.

» Time is generally the best doctor.

» The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

» Bear patiently with a rival.

» Envy aims very high.

» Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.

» Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

» A man is sorry to be honest for nothing.

» It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

» My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.

» Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.

» A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.

» In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are.

» If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

» The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late.

» Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.

» Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned.

» Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.

» Make the workmanship surpass the materials.

» What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

» Daring is not safe against daring men.

» Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.

» Majesty and love do not consort well together, nor do they dwell in the same place.

» Time is the devourer of all things.

» The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

» Either do not attempt at all, or go through with it.

» 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.

» Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.

» Venus favors the bold.

» The burden which is well borne becomes light.

» In an easy matter. Anybody can be eloquent.

» What is without periods of rest will not endure.

» Love is full of anxious fears.

» He who can believe himself well, will be well.

» Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.

» The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.

» Habits change into character.

» Neglect of appearance becomes men.

» Love is a kind of warfare.

» The bold adventurer succeeds the best.

» Endure and persist, this pain will turn good by and by.

» Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.

» Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.

» What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps; with it alone, she lives.

» Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

» Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.

» There is a god within us.

» Every lover is a soldier.

» Where belief is painful we are slow to believe.

» Tears at times have the weight of speech.

» Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.

» To feel our ills is one thing, but to cure them is another.

» It is the poor man who'll ever count his flock.

» Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.

» Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships; the poor man everywhere lies low.

» Beauty is a fragile gift.

» Little things please little minds.

» Art lies by its own artifice.

» Against the bold, daring is unsafe.

» The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.

» Use the occasion, for it passes swiftly.

» He whom all hate all wish to see destroyed.

» Often they benefit who suffer wrong.

» Alas! how difficult it is not to betray one's guilt by one's looks.

» The gods behold all righteous actions.

» Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.

» The cause is hidden; the effect is visible to all.

» Let what is irksome become habitual, no more will it trouble you.

» The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.

» Give way to your opponent; thus will you gain the crown of victory.

» The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.

» The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal.

» The vulgar crowd values friends according to their usefulness.

» Love is a thing that is full of cares and fears.

» All things can corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

» All love is vanquished by a succeeding love.

» Most safely shall you tread the middle path.

» He who says o'er much I love not is in love.

» He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.

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