To be silent is but a small virtue; but it is a serious fault to reveal secrets. — Ovid Copy Share Image
Let others seek safety. Nothing is safer than misfortune, Where there's no fear of greater ill to come. — Ovid Fear Copy Share Image
Time was when genius was more precious than gold, but now to have nothing is monstrous barbarism. — Ovid Barbarism Copy Share Image
Women's words are as light as the doomed leaves whirling in autumn, Easily swept by the wind, easily drowned by the wave. — Ovid Autumn Copy Share Image
I hate a woman who offers herself because she ought to do so, and cold and dry thinks of her sewing when… — Ovid Cold Copy Share Image
She only is chaste, who is chaste where there is no danger of detection: she who does not, because she may not,… — Ovid Chaste Copy Share Image
Whilst you are prosperous you can number many friends; but when the storm comes you are left alone. — Ovid Friend Copy Share Image
Take the advice of light when you're looking at linens or jewels; Looking at faces or forms, take the advice of the… — Ovid Advice Copy Share Image
The raven once in snowy plumes was drest, White as the whitest dove's unsullied breast, Fair as the guardian of the Capitol,… — Ovid Bird Copy Share Image
In your judgment virtue requires no reward, and is to be sought for itself, unaccompanied by external benefits. [Lat., Judice te mercede… — Ovid Copy Share Image
I have never injured anybody with a mordant poem; my verse contains charges against nobody. Ingenuous, I have shunned wit steeped in… — Ovid Copy Share Image
All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are… — Ovid Age Copy Share Image
“She made up prayers and said them, Worshipping unknown gods with unknown singing, Her customary magic, which would cover The white moon’s… — Ovid Prayer Copy Share Image