Ovid

These are the evils which result from gossiping habits.

— Ovid

When the lightning strikes but one, not one only does it terrify.

— Ovid

Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.

— Ovid

We are all bound thither; we are hastening to the same common goal. Black death calls all things under the sway of…

— Ovid

Beauty is a fragile gift.

— Ovid

Art lies in concealing art.

— Ovid

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

— Ovid

Fair Flora! Now attend thy sportful feast, Of which some days I with design have past; A part in April and a…

— Ovid

God gave man an upright countenance to survey the heavens, and to look upward to the stars.

— Ovid

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

— Ovid

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

— Ovid

Love, and a cough, are not concealed.

— Ovid

We have ploughed the vast ocean in a fragile bark.

— Ovid

To wish is of little account; to succeed you must earnestly desire; and this desire must shorten thy sleep.

— Ovid

Art is most effective when concealed.

— Ovid

When I was from Cupid's passions free, my Muse was mute and wrote no elegy.

— Ovid

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

— Ovid

Anyone can be rich in promises.

— Ovid

The more highminded a man is the more easily is his anger appeased.

— Ovid

There is no excellence uncoupled with difficulties.

— Ovid

An injury may prove a blessing.

— Ovid

She only is chaste, who is chaste where there is no danger of detection: she who does not, because she may not,…

— Ovid

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

— Ovid

Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him, Easy-going enough once you acknowledge his power.

— Ovid

It is art to conceal art. -Ars est celare artem

— Ovid