If the subject's easy we may all be wise; What stands unfirm, the smallest force overthrows. — Ovid Copy Share Image
Wind feeds the fire, and wind extinguishes: The flames are nourished by a gentle breeze, Yet, if it stronger grows, they sink… — Ovid Copy Share Image
If Jupiter should hurl a bolt whenever men sin, His armory would quickly be empty. — Ovid Copy Share Image
If you would conquer Love, he must be fought At his first onslaught; sprinkle but a drop Of water, the new-kindled flame… — Ovid Copy Share Image
If Jupiter hurled his thunderbolt as often as men sinned, he would soon be out of thunderbolts. — Ovid Copy Share Image
For this reason, if you believe proverbs, let me tell you the common one: "It is unlucky to marry in May. — Ovid Copy Share Image
So long as you are secure you will count many friends; if your life becomes clouded you will be alone. — Ovid Copy Share Image
If you have a voice, sing; but if you have good arms, then go in for dancing. — Ovid Copy Share Image
Ovid lies here, the poet, skilled in love's gentle sport; By his own talents he worked his undoing. Oh, you who pass… — Ovid Copy Share Image
If it were in my power, I would be wiser; but a newly felt power carries me off in spite of myself;… — Ovid Copy Share Image
Struggling over my fickle heart, love draws it now this way, and now hate that--but love, I think, is winning. I will… — Ovid Copy Share Image
If thou wishest to put an end to love, attend to business (love yields to employment); then thou wilt be safe. [Lat.,… — Ovid Copy Share Image
As long as you are lucky, you will have many friends; if cloudy times appear, you will be alone. -Donec eris felix,… — Ovid Copy Share Image
In prosperity you may count on many friends; if the sky becomes overcast you will be alone. — Ovid Copy Share Image
With patience bear what pains you have deserved, Grieve, if you will, over what's unmerited. — Ovid Copy Share Image
If you count the sunny and the cloudy days of the whole year, you will find that the sunshine predominates. — Ovid Copy Share Image
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
Who would have known of Hector, if Troy had been happy? The road to valor is built by adversity. — Ovid Copy Share Image
First try all other means, but if the wound Heal not, then use the knife, lest to the clean From the diseased… — Ovid Copy Share Image
I could not possibly count the gold-digging ruses of women, Not if I had ten mouths, not if I had ten tongues. — Ovid Copy Share Image
Every woman thinks herself attractive; even the plainest is satisfied with the charms she deems that she possesses. — Ovid Copy Share
Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength. — Ovid Copy Share
A mind conscious of right laughs at the falsehoods of rumour. [Lat., Conscia mens recti famae mendacia risit.] — Ovid Copy Share
It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are. — Ovid Copy Share
I hate a woman who offers herself because she ought to do so, and cold and dry thinks of her sewing when making love. — Ovid Copy Share
The sea's vast depths lie open to the fish; Wherever the breezes blow the bird may fly; So to the brave man every land's… — Ovid Copy Share
Rare is the virtue that's not ruled by Fortune, That stands unshaken even when Fortune flees. — Ovid Copy Share
Thus all things altered. Nothing dies. And here and there the unbodied spirit flies. — Ovid Copy Share
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