Ovid

“If you would be loved, be lovable”

— Ovid

“Even as a cow she was lovely.”

— Ovid

Ah me! love can not be cured by herbs.

— Ovid

I can't live without you or with you.

— Ovid

Fortune and love favor the brave.

— Ovid

There is a god within us.

— Ovid

That tuneful nymph, the babbling Echo.

— Ovid

The result justifies the deed

— Ovid

“Greatly he failed, but he had greatly dared.”

— Ovid

Yield to him who opposes you; by yielding you conquer.

— Ovid

Heaven rewards the pious; those who cherish the gods Themselves are cherished.

— Ovid

Happy is he who dares courageously to defend what he loves.

— Ovid

Love is a naked child: do you think he has pockets for money?

— Ovid

Only begin, and you will become eloquent of yourself.

— Ovid

Gain, acquired by many agents, soon accumulates.

— Ovid

Love's dominion, like a kings, admits of no partition.

— Ovid

“Thence are we a hardy generation, and able to endure fatigue, and we give proofs from what original we are sprung.”

— Ovid

With patience bear what pains you have deserved, Grieve, if you will, over what's unmerited.

— Ovid

Ah me! love can not be cured by herbs. [Lat., Hei mihi! quod nullis amor est medicabilis herbis.]

— Ovid

Envy feeds on the living, after death it rests, then the honor of a man protects him.

— Ovid

Resist beginnings: it is too late to employ medicine when the evil has grown strong by inveterate habit.

— Ovid

It is something to hold the scepter with a firm hand. [Lat., Est aliquid valida sceptra tenere manu.]

— Ovid

Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.

— Ovid

The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become…

— Ovid

Our native land charms us with inexpressible sweetness, and never never allows us to forget that we belong to it. [Lat., Nescio…

— Ovid

Beneath the sun's rays our shadow is our comrade; When clouds obscure the sun our shadow flees. So Fortune's smiles the fickle…

— Ovid

Ovid lies here, the poet, skilled in love's gentle sport; By his own talents he worked his undoing. Oh, you who pass…

— Ovid

I would that you were either less beautiful, or less corrupt. Such perfect beauty does not suit such imperfect morals. [Lat., Aut…

— Ovid

Skilled in every trick, a worthy heir of his paternal craft, he would make black look like white, and white look black.…

— Ovid

Ah me! how easy it is (how much all have experienced it) to indulge in brave words in another person's trouble. [Lat.,…

— Ovid

The god we now behold with opened eyes, A herd of spotted panthers round him lies In glaring forms; the grapy clusters…

— Ovid

Time itself flows on with constant motion, just like a river: for no more than a river can the fleeting hour stand…

— Ovid

Simplicity, very rare in our age.

— Ovid

Pursuits become habits.

— Ovid

Difficulty is what wakes up the genius.

— Ovid

It is ill to marry in the month of May.

— Ovid

To give requires good sense.

— Ovid

Art lies in concealing art.

— Ovid

Anger assists hands however weak.

— Ovid

God himself helps those who dare.

— Ovid