Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them. — Ovid Eludes Copy Share Image
That pleasure which can be safely indulged in is the least inviting. — Ovid Happiness Copy Share Image
Heaven rewards the pious; those who cherish the gods Themselves are cherished. — Ovid Copy Share Image
In the make-up of human beings, intelligence counts for more than our hands, and that is our true strength. — Ovid Copy Share Image
The swallow is not ensnared by men because of its gentle nature. [Lat., At caret insidiis hominum, quia mitis, hirundo.] — Ovid Gentle Copy Share Image
We two [Deucalion and Pyrrha, after the deluge] form a multitude. [Lat., Nos duo turba sumus.] — Ovid Copy Share Image
The wit of man has devised cruel statutes, And nature oft permits what is by law forbid. — Ovid Copy Share Image
It is something to hold the scepter with a firm hand. [Lat., Est aliquid valida sceptra tenere manu.] — Ovid Copy Share Image
The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become… — Ovid Fire Copy Share Image
Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft. — Ovid Affectionate Copy Share Image
Resist beginnings: it is too late to employ medicine when the evil has grown strong by inveterate habit. — Ovid Evil Copy Share Image
Friendship is but a name, faith is an empty name. Alas, it is not safe to praise to a friend the object… — Ovid Copy Share Image
“All right, boy, skewer me. I've dropped my defenses, I'm an easy victim. Why, by now Your arrows practically know their own… — Ovid Copy Share Image
When a house is tottering to its fall, The strain lies heaviest on the weakest part, One tiny crack throughout the structure… — Ovid Fitness Copy Share Image
Wine, not too much, inspires and make the mind,to the soft joys of Venus strong inclined,which, buried in excess, unapt to love,stupidly… — Ovid Copy Share Image
“O gods, \ If any gods will listen, I deserve \ Punishment surely, I do not refuse it, \ But lest, in… — Ovid Death Copy Share Image
There is nothing in the whole world which abides. All things are in a state of ebb and flow, and every shadow… — Ovid Copy Share Image
Sleep, rest of nature, O sleep, most gentle of the divinities, peace of the soul, thou at whose presence care disappears, who… — Ovid Care Copy Share Image
Nothing is so high and above all danger that is not below and in the power of God. [Lat., Nihil ita sublime… — Ovid Danger Copy Share Image