Ovid

Beauty, if you do not open your doors, takes age from lack of use.

— Ovid

The burden which is well borne becomes light.

— Ovid

Often a silent face has voice and words.

— Ovid

The ungovernable passion for wealth. [Lat., Opum furiata cupido.]

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What follows I flee; what flees I ever pursue.

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To feel our ills is one thing, but to cure them is another.

— Ovid

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

— Ovid

We do not bear sweets; we are recruited by a bitter potion.

— Ovid

Gifts, believe me, captivate both men and Gods, Jupiter himself was won over and appeased by gifts.

— Ovid

I am above being injured by fortune, though she steals away much, more will remain with me. The blessing I now enjoy…

— Ovid

The crop always seems better in our neighbor's field, and our neighbor's cow gives more milk.

— Ovid

Love is too prone to trust. Would I could think My charges false and all too rashly made.

— Ovid

I could not possibly count the gold-digging ruses of women, Not if I had ten mouths, not if I had ten tongues.

— Ovid

Adde, quod ingénues didicisse fideliter artes Emollit mores, nec sinit esse fervos. To be instructed in the arts, softens the manners and…

— Ovid

A broken fortune is like a falling column; the lower it sinks, the greater weight it has to sustain.

— Ovid

“My purpose is to tell of bodies that have been changed into shapes of different kinds.”

— Ovid

Judgement of beauty can err, what with the wine and the dark.

— Ovid

“Dignity and love do not blend well, nor do they continue long together. ”

— Ovid

My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.

— Ovid

How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

— 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

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

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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

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

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

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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

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It is no less a feat to keep what you have, than to increase it. In one there is chance, the other…

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In time the bull is brought to wear the yoke. [Lat., Tempore ruricolae patiens fit taurus aratri.]

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Birth and ancestry, and that which we have not ourselves achieved, we can scarcely call our own.

— Ovid

Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.

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“Saepe creat molles aspera spina rosas" - "Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses”

— Ovid

The wild boar is often held by a small dog. [Lat., A cane non magno saepe tenetur aper.]

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Our neighbour's crop is always more fruitful and his cattle produce more milk than our own.

— Ovid

Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason.

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Believe me, the gods spare the afflicted, and do not always oppress those who are unfortunate.

— Ovid

Calumny ever pursues the great, even as the winds hurl themselves on high places.

— Ovid

“Barbarus hic ego sum, quia non intelligor illis. (In this place I am a barbarian, because men do not understand me.)”

— Ovid