Ovid

Love's dominion, like a kings, admits of no partition.

— Ovid

Gain, acquired by many agents, soon accumulates.

— Ovid

Pure women are only those who have not been asked.

— Ovid

A gift in time of need is most acceptable.

— Ovid

Yield to him who opposes you; by yielding you conquer.

— Ovid

“Greatly he failed, but he had greatly dared.”

— Ovid

Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.

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Dear to girls' hearts is their own beauty.

— Ovid

Some wounds grow worse beneath the surgeon's hand; Better that they were not touched at all.

— Ovid

Tis not always in a physician's power to cure the sick; at times the disease is stronger than trained art.

— Ovid

It is not safe to despise what Love commands. He reigns supreme, and rules the mighty gods.

— Ovid

How little you know about the age you live in if you think that honey is sweeter than cash in hand

— 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.

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

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That pleasure which can be safely indulged in is the least inviting.

— Ovid

Heaven rewards the pious; those who cherish the gods Themselves are cherished.

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Happy is he who dares courageously to defend what he loves.

— Ovid

Love is a naked child: do you think he has pockets for money?

— 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

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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

Those presents are the most acceptable which are enhanced by our regard for the donor.

— Ovid

I am dragged along by a strange new force. Desire and reason are pulling in different directions. I see the right way…

— Ovid

“...et ignotas animum dimittit in artes, naturamque nouat. (to arts unknown he bends his wits, and alters nature.)”

— Ovid

The sick mind can not bear anything harsh. [Lat., Mensque pati durum sustinet aegra nihil.]

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Gutta cavat lapidem, non vi sed saepe cadendo. (The drop excavates the stone, not with force but by falling often.)

— Ovid

I am the poet of the poor, because I was poor when I loved; since I could not give gifts, I gave…

— Ovid

Eurydice, dying now a second time, uttered no complaint against her husband. What was there to complain of, but that she had…

— Ovid

Suppressed pain chokes us; in our breasts It surges, adding ever to its strength.

— Ovid

If Jupiter should hurl a bolt whenever men sin, His armory would quickly be empty.

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The crop always seems better in our neighbor's field, and our neighbor's cow gives more milk.

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I am above being injured by fortune, though she steals away much, more will remain with me. The blessing I now enjoy…

— Ovid

Gifts, believe me, captivate both men and Gods, Jupiter himself was won over and appeased by gifts.

— Ovid

Heavens! what thick darkness pervades the minds of men. [Lat., Pro superi! quantum mortalia pectora caecae, Noctis habent.]

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The applause and the favour of our fellow-men Fan even a spark of genius to a flame.

— Ovid

We praise times past, while we times present use; Yet due the worship which to each we give.

— Ovid

I am an exile; but it is the fault that pains; The punishment is nought; that it is deserved Is all the…

— Ovid