If the subject's easy we may all be wise; What stands unfirm, the smallest force overthrows. — 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
In prosperity you may count on many friends; if the sky becomes overcast you will be alone. — Ovid Copy Share Image
We covet what is guarded; the very care invokes the thief. Few love what they may have. — Ovid Copy Share Image
They come to see, they come that they themselves may be seen. [Lat., Spectatum veniunt, veniunt spectentur ut ipse.] — Ovid 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 Copy Share Image
We beg one hour of death, that neither she With widow's tears may live to bury me, Nor weeping I, with wither'd… — Ovid Copy Share Image
Nothing aids which may not also injure us. Fire serves us well, but he who plots to burn His neighbor's roof arms… — Ovid Copy Share Image
When worse may yet befall, there's room for prayer, But when our fortune's at its lowest ebb, We trample fear beneath our… — Ovid Copy Share Image
The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become… — 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… — Ovid Copy Share Image
Riches too increase, and the maddening craving for gold, So that men ever seek for more, that they may have the most. — Ovid Copy Share Image
Fair Flora! Now attend thy sportful feast, Of which some days I with design have past; A part in April and a… — Ovid Copy Share Image
You start in April and cross to the time of May One has you as it leaves, one as it comes Since… — Ovid Copy Share Image
Nothing retains its form; new shapes from old. Nature, the great inventor, ceaselessly contrives. In all creation, be assured, there is no… — Ovid Copy Share Image
Nothing in the entire universe ever perishes, believe me, but things vary, and adopt a new form. The phrase being born is… — Ovid Copy Share Image
Meet the disorder in the outset, the medicine may be too late, when the disease has gained ground through delay. — Ovid Copy Share Image
May you live unenvied, and pass many pleasant years unknown to fame; and also have congenial friends. [Lat., Vive sine invidia, mollesque… — 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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