Ovid

A safe pleasure is a tame pleasure.

— Ovid

Pleasant words are the food of love.

— Ovid

Nothing is swifter than our years.

— Ovid

Time, motion and wine cause sleep.

— Ovid

Love is a thing full of anxious fears.

— Ovid

This victory will be your I ruin.

— Ovid

Love that is fed by jealousy dies hard.

— Ovid

Bear patiently with a rival.

— Ovid

That's one of the greatest curses ever inflicted on the human race, memory.

— Ovid

Take away leisure and Cupid's bow is broken

— Ovid

He who holds the hook is aware in what waters many fish are swimming.

— Ovid

Fas est ab hoste doceri. One should learn even from one's enemies.

— Ovid

Though the strength is lacking, yet the willingness is commendable.

— Ovid

The time will come when you will hate the sight of a mirror.

— Ovid

Dear to the heart of a girl is her own beauty and charm.

— Ovid

Add little to little and there will be a big pile.

— Ovid

In prosperity you may count on many friends; if the sky becomes overcast you will be alone.

— Ovid

Remove but the temptations of leisure, and the bow of Cupid will lose its effect.

— Ovid

Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength.

— Ovid

In war the olive branch of peace is of use. [Lat., Adjuvat in bello pacatae ramus olivae.]

— Ovid

Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination. [Lat., Factis ignoscite nostris Si scelus ingenio scitis abesse…

— Ovid

Passion persuades me one way, reason another. I see the better and approve it, but I follow the worse.

— Ovid

See that you promise: what harm is there in promise? In promises anyone can be rich.

— Ovid

“Our native land charms us with inexpressible sweetness, and never, never allows us to forget that we belong to it.”

— Ovid

As long as you are lucky, you will have many friends; if cloudy times appear, you will be alone. -Donec eris felix,…

— Ovid

If thou wishest to put an end to love, attend to business (love yields to employment); then thou wilt be safe. [Lat.,…

— Ovid

All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are…

— Ovid

“She made up prayers and said them, Worshipping unknown gods with unknown singing, Her customary magic, which would cover The white moon’s…

— Ovid

I have never injured anybody with a mordant poem; my verse contains charges against nobody. Ingenuous, I have shunned wit steeped in…

— Ovid

In your judgment virtue requires no reward, and is to be sought for itself, unaccompanied by external benefits. [Lat., Judice te mercede…

— Ovid

Face troubles from their birth, for 'tis too late to cure When long delay has given the evil strength. Haste then; postpone…

— Ovid

Ants do no bend their ways to empty barns, so no friend will visit the place of departed wealth. [Lat., Horrea formicae…

— Ovid

An evil life is a kind of death.

— Ovid

Anyone can be rich in promises.

— Ovid

Few love what they may have.

— Ovid

Even pleasure cloys without variety.

— Ovid

A pious fraud. [Lat., Pia fraus.]

— Ovid

A woman is always buying something.

— Ovid

Love, and a cough, are not concealed.

— Ovid

Let the poor man mind his tongue

— Ovid