Inspirational Quotes by Ovid · Page 4

Who would have known of Hector, if Troy had been happy? The road to valor is built by adversity.

— Ovid

It is good to be taught even by an enemy

— Ovid

Few love what they may have.

— Ovid

Temporis ars medicina fere est. Time is generally the best medicine.

— Ovid

The least strength suffices to break what is bruised.

— Ovid

Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses.

— Ovid

Envy depreciates the genius of the great Homer.

— Ovid

Great is the strife between beauty and modesty.

— Ovid

Happy is he who dares courageously to defend what he loves.

— Ovid

Wine prepares the heart for love, unless you take too much.

— Ovid

Only begin, and you will become eloquent of yourself.

— Ovid

A woman is a creature that's always shopping.

— Ovid

Nor is there any law more just, than that he who has plotted death shall perish by his own plot.

— Ovid

Pleasant words are the food of love.

— Ovid

Diseases of the mind impair the bodily powers.

— Ovid

Giving calls for genius.

— Ovid

Love is born of idleness and, once born, by idleness is fostered.

— Ovid

Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

— Ovid

Skill makes love unending.

— Ovid

Do not believe hastily.

— Ovid

Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop

— Ovid

Tempus edax rerum. Time the devourer of everything.

— Ovid

Nothing is more useful to man that those arts which have no utility.

— Ovid

Idleness ruins the constitution

— Ovid

A burthen cheerfully borne becomes light

— Ovid