Ovid Quotes

Every lover is a soldier.

What one beholds of a woman is the least part of her.

Isn't the best defense always a good attack?

Time, motion and wine cause sleep.

You can learn from anyone even your enemy.

Thanks are justly due for boons unbought

What is now an act of reason, was but blind impulse.

O fool, what else is sleep but chill death's likeness?

I hate a woman who offers herself because she ought to do so, and cold and dry thinks of her sewing when making love.

You who seek an end of love, love yields to business: be busy, and you will be safe.

What is without periods of rest will not endure.

Love is an affair of credulity.

It is the mind that makes the man, and our vigour is in our immortal soul.

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

He who can simulate sanity will be sane.

It is ill to marry in the month of May.

Thus all things altered. Nothing dies. And here and there the unbodied spirit flies.

A boar is often held by a not-so-large dog.

Often they benefit who suffer wrong.

That fair face will as years roll on lose its beauty, and old age will bring its wrinkles to the brow.

So long as you are secure you will count many friends; if your life becomes clouded you will be alone.

If God be my friend, I cannot be wretched.

There is nothing in the whole world which abides. All things are in a state of ebb and flow, and every shadow passes away. Even time itself, like a river, is constantly gliding away .

Consider the misfortunes of others, and you will be the better able to bear your own.

The more highminded a man is the more easily is his anger appeased.

Envy, the meanest of vices, creeps on the ground like a serpent.

Love that is fed by jealousy dies hard.

A soldier when aged is not appreciated; the love of an old man sickens.

The love of fame puts spurs to the mind

Pleasant words are the food of love.

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

Nothing is swifter than our years.

It's a kindness that the mind can go where it wishes.

A broken fortune is like a falling column; the lower it sinks, the greater weight it has to sustain.

It is expedient that there should be gods, and, since it is expedient, let us believe that gods exist.

Even the gods are moved by the voice of entreaty.

"Gutta cavat lapidem." (Dripping water carves a stone.)

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

Ere land and sea and the all-covering sky Were made, in the whole world the countenance Of nature was the same, all one, well named Chaos, a raw and undivided mass, Naught but a lifeless bulk, with warring seeds Of ill-joined elements compressed together.

There is no excellency without difficulty.

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

It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal.

Grief brims itself and flows away in tears.

Love conquers all things; let us own her dominion.

These are the evils which result from gossiping habits.

If he did not succeed, he at least failed in a glorious undertaking.

Haste is productive of injury, and so is too much hesitation. He is the wisest man who does everything at the proper time.