Ovid

Grief is put to flight and assuaged by generous draughts.

— Ovid

Tempus edax rerum. Time the devourer of everything.

— Ovid

Right it is to be taught even by the enemy.

— Ovid

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

— Ovid

The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

— Ovid

There is a good deal in a man's mode of eating.

— Ovid

You can learn from anyone even your enemy.

— Ovid

The glow of inspiration warms us; it is a holy rapture.

— Ovid

Every man should stay within his own fortune. [Lat., Intera fortunam quisque debet manere suam.]

— Ovid

Meet the disorder in the outset, the medicine may be too late, when the disease has gained ground through delay.

— Ovid

Man's last day must ever be awaited and none to be counted happy until his death, until his last funeral rites are…

— Ovid

Niobe would have been called most blessed of mothers, had she not seemed so herself.

— Ovid

The most wretched fortune is safe; for there is no fear of anything worse. [Lat., Fortuna miserrima tuta est: Nam timor eventus…

— Ovid

Not for any one man's delight has Nature made the sun, the wind, the waters; all are free.

— Ovid

Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us…

— Ovid

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

— Ovid

People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.

— Ovid

This also, that I live, I consider a gift of God.

— Ovid

It is prudence that first forsakes the wretched.

— Ovid

Envy assails the noblest: the winds howl around the highest peaks.

— Ovid

Mad desire, when it has the most, longs for more

— Ovid

Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses.

— Ovid

A pleasing countenance is no light advantage.

— Ovid

Safety lies in the middle course. [Lat., Medio tutissimus ibis.]

— Ovid

We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.

— Ovid

The more they drink the more they thirst.

— Ovid

The love of country is more powerful than reason itself.

— Ovid

Be bold, take courage... and be strong of soul

— Ovid

There is no excellency without difficulty.

— Ovid

“or that writing a poem you can read to no one is like dancing in the dark.”

— Ovid

The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.

— Ovid

Everyone is a millionaire where promises are concerned

— Ovid

Only the mind cannot be sent into exile.

— Ovid

There is a certain kind of pleasure in weeping.

— Ovid

Sleep ... peace of the soul, who puttest care to flight.

— Ovid

O fool, what else is sleep but chill death's likeness?

— Ovid

Thy destiny is only that of man, but thy aspirations may be those of a god.

— Ovid

Great is the strife between beauty and modesty.

— Ovid

Love is a thing that is full of cares and fears.

— Ovid

One does not yearn for that which is easily acquired.

— Ovid