Ovid

In an easy cause any man may be eloquent.

— Ovid

Time spent in the cultivation of the fields passes very pleasantly.

— Ovid

There are a thousand forms of evil; there will be a thousand remedies.

— Ovid

Happy the man who ventures boldly to defend what he holds dear.

— Ovid

I see and approve better things, but follow worse.

— Ovid

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

— Ovid

“in flammam flammas, in mare fundis aquas”

— Ovid

The mind that's conscious of its rectitude, Laughs at the lies of rumor.

— Ovid

Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason.

— Ovid

Believe me, the gods spare the afflicted, and do not always oppress those who are unfortunate.

— Ovid

“Barbarus hic ego sum, quia non intelligor illis. (In this place I am a barbarian, because men do not understand me.)”

— Ovid

Calumny ever pursues the great, even as the winds hurl themselves on high places.

— Ovid

First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, 'I believe,' three times.

— Ovid

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

— Ovid

It is a pleasure appropriate to man, for him to save a fellow-man, and gratitude is acquired in no better way.

— Ovid

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

— Ovid

Treat a thousand dispositions in a thousand ways.

— Ovid

Occupy yourself, and you will be out of harm's way.

— Ovid

Let love steal in disguised as friendship.

— Ovid

Anything cracked will shatter at a touch.

— Ovid

If he should love deny him what he loves!

— Ovid

Let the man who does not wish to be idle, fall in love.

— Ovid

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

— Ovid

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

— Ovid

My intention is to tell of bodies changed into new forms.

— Ovid

Envy feeds on the living. It ceases when they are dead.

— Ovid

Gold will buy the highest honours; and gold will purchase love.

— Ovid

A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.

— Ovid

Leve fit quod bene fertur onus. The burden which is well borne becomes light.

— Ovid

It's right to learn, even from the enemy.

— Ovid

The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.

— Ovid

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

— Ovid

Giving requires good sense. [Lat., Rest est ingeniosa dare.]

— Ovid

Envy depreciates the genius of the great Homer.

— Ovid

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

— Ovid

The mind alone can not be exiled. [Lat., Mens sola loco non exulat.]

— Ovid

“Jokaisen rakkauden voittaa uusi rakkaus.”

— Ovid

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

— Ovid

A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.

— Ovid

Judgment of beauty can err, what with the wine and the dark

— Ovid