Ovid

The result justifies the deed

— Ovid

Simplicity, very rare in our age.

— Ovid

That tuneful nymph, the babbling Echo.

— Ovid

There is a god within us.

— Ovid

I can't live without you or with you.

— Ovid

Fortune and love favor the brave.

— Ovid

Ah me! love can not be cured by herbs.

— Ovid

Envy aims very high.

— Ovid

You put aside the work that's done, and seek some work to do.

— Ovid

Time is a stream which glides smoothly on and is past before we know.

— Ovid

Women can always be caught; that's the first rule of the game.

— Ovid

Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.

— Ovid

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

— Ovid

We are always striving for things forbidden, and coveting those denied us.

— Ovid

Happy the man who can count his sufferings.

— Ovid

When the heart is sick it cannot bear the slightest annoyance.

— Ovid

Sleep, rest of things, O pleasing Deity, Peace of the soul, which cares dost crucify, Weary bodies refresh and mollify.

— Ovid

A pleasing countenance is no slight disadvantage. [Lat., Auxilium non leve vultus habet.]

— Ovid

All-devouring time, envious age, Nought can escape you, and by slow degrees, Worn by your teeth, all things will lingering die.

— Ovid

He who has it in his power to commit sin, is less inclined to do so. The very idea of being able,…

— Ovid

Those gifts are ever the most acceptable which the giver makes precious. [Lat., Acceptissima semper munera sunt auctor quae pretiosa facit.]

— Ovid

Rest strengthens the body, the mind too is thus supported; but unremitting toil destroys both.

— Ovid

Every one who repeats it adds something to the scandal. [The rolling snow-ball.]

— Ovid

Alluring pleasure is said to have softened the savage dispositions (of early mankind). [Lat., Blanda truces animos fertur mollisse voluptas.]

— Ovid

Sleep, thou repose of all things; sleep, thou gentlest of the deities; thou peace of the mind, from which care flies; who…

— Ovid

The mind is sicker than the sick body; in contemplation of its sufferings it becomes hopeless. [Lat., Corpore sed mens est aegro…

— Ovid

You start in April and cross to the time of May One has you as it leaves, one as it comes Since…

— Ovid

Take this at least, this last advice, my son: Keep a stiff rein, and move but gently on: The coursers of themselves…

— Ovid

As wave is driven by wave And each, pursued, pursues the wave ahead, So time flies on and follows, flies, and follows,…

— Ovid

“Their useless torches on dry hedges throw, That catch the flames, and kindle all the row; So burns the God, consuming in…

— Ovid

“For such a career I lacked both endurance and inclination: the stress of ambition left me cold, while the Muse, the creative…

— Ovid

Ere land and sea and the all-covering sky Were made, in the whole world the countenance Of nature was the same, all…

— Ovid

Love is full of anxious fears.

— Ovid

Venus favors the bold.

— Ovid

Beauty is a frail good.

— Ovid

The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.

— Ovid

You will go most safely in the middle.

— Ovid

Time, the devourer of all things.

— Ovid

There is a divinity within our breast.

— Ovid

Time is the devourer of all things.

— Ovid