Ovid Quotes

Little things please little minds.

We must improve our time; time goes with rapid foot.

To wish is of little account; to succeed you must earnestly desire; and this desire must shorten thy sleep.

A light breath fans the flame, a violent gust extinguishes it.

We suffer by our proximity. [Who get a blow intended for another.]

Pleasure is sweetest when 'tis paid for by another's pain.

If you have a voice, sing; but if you have good arms, then go in for dancing.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

What is harder than rock, or softer than water? Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere.

The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.

Tis not always in a physician's power to cure the sick; at times the disease is stronger than trained art.

A lover fears all that he believes.

Love's dominion, like a kings, admits of no partition.

Simplicity, very rare in our age.

Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.

Whatever charm thou hast, be charming.

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

A man is sorry to be honest for nothing.

Beauty is a fragile gift.

Few people want the pleasures they are free to take.

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

Pride is innate in beauty, and haughtiness is the companion of the fair.

When I was from Cupid's passions free, my Muse was mute and wrote no elegy.

I flee who chases me and chase who flees me.

While I am speaking the opportunity is lost.

Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Ah me! love can not be cured by herbs.

Burdens become light when cheerfully borne.

In our play we reveal what kind of people we are.

The mind ill at ease, the body suffers also.

Wine prepares the heart for love, unless you take too much.

What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

Time is a stream which glides smoothly on and is past before we know.

Well has he lived who has lived well in obscurity.

Twice does he live who can enjoy the remembrance of the past.

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.

Love fed fat soon turns to boredom.

A short absence is the safest.

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

Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.

Envy feeds on the living, after death it rests, then the honor of a man protects him.

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

Time is the devourer of all things.

In sweet water there is a pleasure ungrudged by anyone.

Things which of themselves avail nothing, when united become powerful.

Love is a believing creature.

A pleasing countenance is no light advantage.

There is a God within us, and we glow when He stirs us.