Ovid

The mightiest rivers lose their force when split up into several streams.

— Ovid

Only the mind cannot be sent into exile.

— Ovid

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

— Ovid

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

— Ovid

That, which has not its alternation of rest, will not last long.

— Ovid

We hate the hawk because he ever lives in battle.

— Ovid

Love that is fed by jealousy dies hard.

— Ovid

“Dicere quae puduit, scribere jussit amor”

— Ovid

“The god of Delos, proud in victory, Saw Cupid draw his bow's taut arc, and said: 'Mischievous boy, what are a brave…

— Ovid

Time was when genius was more precious than gold, but now to have nothing is monstrous barbarism.

— Ovid

Although they posses enough, and more than enough still they yearn for more.

— Ovid

We two [Deucalion and Pyrrha, after the deluge] form a multitude. [Lat., Nos duo turba sumus.]

— Ovid

Writings survive the years; it is by writings that you know Agamemnon, and those who fought for or against him. [Lat., Scripta…

— Ovid

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

— Ovid

I hate, and yet must love the thing I hate.

— Ovid

Luck affects everything; let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it, there

— Ovid

Chaste is she whom no one has asked.

— Ovid

Thou fool, what is sleep but the image of death? Fate will give an eternal rest. [Lat., Stulte, quid est somnus, gelidae…

— Ovid

There is no pleasure pure and simple, and some care always comes to mar our joys.

— Ovid

The gods have their own laws. [Lat., Sunt superis sua jura.]

— Ovid

The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.

— Ovid