What is more useful than fire? Yet if any one prepares to burn a house, it is with fire that he arms… — Ovid Copy Share Image
It is but a small merit to observe silence, but it is a grave fault to speak of matters on which we… — Ovid Copy Share Image
To have properly studied the liberal sciences gives a polish to our manners, and removes all awkwardness. — Ovid Awkwardness Copy Share Image
Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish. — Ovid Copy Share Image
The sea's vast depths lie open to the fish; Wherever the breezes blow the bird may fly; So to the brave man… — Ovid Bird Copy Share Image
Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves. — Ovid Body Copy Share Image
The earth yields up her stores, of every ill The instigators; iron, foe to man, And gold, than iron deadlier. — Ovid Earth Copy Share Image
Everyone is desirous of his own pursuits, and loves To spend his time in his accustomed art. — Ovid Copy Share Image
Devouring Time and envious Age, all things yield to you; and with lingering death you destroy, step by step, with venomed tooth… — Ovid Age Copy Share Image
The whole earth is the brave man's country. [Lat., Omne solum forti patria est.] — Ovid Brave Copy Share Image
My bark, once struck by the fury of the storm, dreads again to approach the place of danger. — Ovid Approach Copy Share Image