Quotes By Ovid

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.

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.

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

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.

Ah me! Love can not be cured by herbs.

Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts.

Neglect of appearance becomes men.

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

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

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

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

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.

The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.

The vulgar crowd values friends according to their usefulness.

I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement.

Love is full of anxious fears.

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

Love is a thing that is full of cares and fears.

There is a god within us.

Daring is not safe against daring men.