Quotes By Ovid

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

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

Every lover is a soldier.

Use the occasion, for it passes swiftly.

All love is vanquished by a succeeding love.

The gods behold all righteous actions.

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

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

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

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

Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.

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

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

Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.

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

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

All things can corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ah me! Love can not be cured by herbs.

Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts.

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

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

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

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

Neglect of appearance becomes men.

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

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

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

The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.

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

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