Ovid Quotes

Happy the man who ventures boldly to defend what he holds dear.

If you want to be loved, be lovable.

Meet the disorder in the outset, the medicine may be too late, when the disease has gained ground through delay.

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.

Make good use of your time, it flies fast.

Small minds are captivated by trifles.

Envy assails the noblest: the winds howl around the highest peaks.

If the art is concealed, it succeeds.

Right it is to be taught even by the enemy.

As long as you are lucky, you will have many friends; if cloudy times appear, you will be alone. -Donec eris felix, multos numerabis amicos; tempora si fuerint nubila, solus eris

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

Occupy yourself, and you will be out of harm's way.

Excessive love in loathing ever ends.

Fair peace is becoming to men; fierce anger belongs to beasts.

Make the workmanship surpass the materials.

You will be melancholy, if you are solitary.

Love, and a cough, are not concealed.

The burden becomes light that is shared by love.

Sleep, thou repose of all things; sleep, thou gentlest of the deities; thou peace of the mind, from which care flies; who doest soothe the hearts of men wearied with the toils of the day, and refittest them for labor.

Although the power is lacking, the will is commendable.

A safe pleasure is a tame pleasure.

We can learn even from our enemies.

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

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

Fortune and love favor the brave.

I can't live without you or with you.

The crop always seems better in our neighbor's field, and our neighbor's cow gives more milk.

Leave war to others; 'tis Protesilaus' part of love.

Nothing retains its form; new shapes from old. Nature, the great inventor, ceaselessly contrives. In all creation, be assured, there is no death - no death, but only change and innovation; what we men call birth is but a different new beginning; death is but to cease to be the same. Perhaps this may have moved to that, and that to this, yet still the sum of things remains the same.

It is lawful to be taught by an enemy. Fas est ab hoste doceri.

Calumny ever pursues the great, even as the winds hurl themselves on high places.

Very slight violence will break that which has once been cracked.

The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.

Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses.

Where crime is taught from early years, it becomes a part of nature.

If he should love deny him what he loves!

The bold adventurer succeeds the best.

As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

In an easy cause anyone can be eloquent; the slightest strength is enough to break what is already shattered.

Hastiness is the beginning of wrath, and its end repentance.

Remove but the temptations of leisure, and the bow of Cupid will lose its effect.

Our native soil draws all of us, by I know not what sweetness, and never allows us to forget.

The workmanship was better than the subject matter.

That, which has not its alternation of rest, will not last long.

When disposition wins us, the features please.

You will be safest in the middle.

Tempus edax rerum. Time the devourer of everything.

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.