Quotes By Ovid

The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal.

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

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

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

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.

Tears at times have the weight of speech.

If you want to be loved, be lovable.

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

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

Make the workmanship surpass the materials.

You can learn from anyone even your enemy.

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

Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.

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

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

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

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

Time, the devourer of all things.

Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned.

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.

Habits change into character.

It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

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

In an easy matter. Anybody can be eloquent.

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

Love is a kind of warfare.

Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.

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

Envy aims very high.

What is without periods of rest will not endure.