Ovid

“You will go most safely by the middle way.”

— Ovid

Fortune and love favour the brave. [Lat., Audentem Forsque Venusque juvant.]

— Ovid

Alas! How difficult it is to prevent the countenance from betraying guilt!

— Ovid

“I am a shipwrecked man who fears every sea.”

— Ovid

It's useful that there should be Gods, so let's believe there are.

— Ovid

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

— Ovid

It is some alleviation to ills we cannot cure to speak of them.

— Ovid

Pursuits become habits. [Lat., Abeunt studia in mores.]

— Ovid

You will hardly conquer, but conquer you must. [Lat., Male vincetis, sed vincite.]

— Ovid

God gave man an upright countenance to survey the heavens, and to look upward to the stars.

— Ovid

What is harder than rock, or softer than water? Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere.

— Ovid

Luck affects everything; let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it, there

— Ovid

Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.

— Ovid

They come to see, they come that they themselves may be seen. [Lat., Spectatum veniunt, veniunt spectentur ut ipse.]

— Ovid

Virtue and vice, evil and good, are siblings, or next-door neighbors, Easy to make mistakes, hard to tell them apart.

— Ovid

If the subject's easy we may all be wise; What stands unfirm, the smallest force overthrows.

— Ovid

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

— Ovid

Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.

— Ovid

“or that writing a poem you can read to no one is like dancing in the dark.”

— Ovid

Be bold, take courage... and be strong of soul

— Ovid

There is no excellency without difficulty.

— Ovid

The love of country is more powerful than reason itself.

— Ovid

Everyone is a millionaire where promises are concerned

— Ovid

The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.

— Ovid

Thy destiny is only that of man, but thy aspirations may be those of a god.

— Ovid

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

— Ovid

Sleep ... peace of the soul, who puttest care to flight.

— Ovid

There is a certain kind of pleasure in weeping.

— Ovid

Only the mind cannot be sent into exile.

— Ovid

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

— Ovid

Great is the strife between beauty and modesty.

— Ovid

People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.

— Ovid

The glow of inspiration warms us; it is a holy rapture.

— Ovid

You can learn from anyone even your enemy.

— Ovid

There is a good deal in a man's mode of eating.

— Ovid

Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses.

— Ovid

Mad desire, when it has the most, longs for more

— Ovid

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

— Ovid

This also, that I live, I consider a gift of God.

— Ovid

It is prudence that first forsakes the wretched.

— Ovid