All human things hang on a slender thread, the strongest fall with a sudden crash. — 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
A good disposition is a virtue in itself, and it is lasting; the burden of the years cannot depress it, and love… — Ovid Copy Share Image
Love is too prone to trust. Would I could think My charges false and all too rashly made. — Ovid Copy Share Image
“And when wine has soaked Cupid’s drunken wings, he’s stayed, weighed down, a captive of the place. ... Wine rouses courage and… — Ovid Copy Share Image
Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe. — Ovid Copy Share Image
What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps with it alone, she lives. — Ovid Copy Share Image
It warms the blood, adds luster to the eyes, and wine and love have ever been allies. — 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 Image
Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength. — Ovid Copy Share Image
A mind conscious of right laughs at the falsehoods of rumour. [Lat., Conscia mens recti famae mendacia risit.] — Ovid Copy Share Image
It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are. — Ovid 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 making love. — Ovid Copy Share Image
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 Image
Rare is the virtue that's not ruled by Fortune, That stands unshaken even when Fortune flees. — Ovid Copy Share Image
Thus all things altered. Nothing dies. And here and there the unbodied spirit flies. — Ovid Copy Share Image