Ovid

Love fed fat soon turns to boredom.

— Ovid

Love is no assignment for cowards.

— Ovid

Love is a credulous thing.

— Ovid

There is a certain pleasure in weeping.

— Ovid

The gods have their own rules.

— Ovid

The love of fame puts spurs to the mind

— Ovid

A short absence is the safest.

— Ovid

Trivial losses often prove great gains.

— Ovid

We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.

— Ovid

Pleasure is sweetest when 'tis paid for by another's pain.

— Ovid

Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts.

— Ovid

Beauty- it was a favor bestowed by the gods.

— Ovid

There is no small pleasure in pure water.

— Ovid

The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late.

— Ovid

Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.

— Ovid

We must improve our time; time goes with rapid foot.

— Ovid

And I will capture your minds with sweet novelty. [Lat., Dulcique animos novitate tenebo.]

— Ovid

Death is not grievous to me, for I shall lay aside my pains by death. [Lat., Nec mihi mors gravis est posituro…

— Ovid

Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish.

— Ovid

“Let your hook be always cast in the pond. when you least expect it, there will be fish.”

— Ovid

The glow of inspiration warms us; this holy rapture springs from the seeds of the Divine mind sown in man.

— Ovid

Rare is the virtue that's not ruled by Fortune, That stands unshaken even when Fortune flees.

— Ovid

As many as the shells that are on the shore, so many are the pains of love; the darts that wound are…

— Ovid

First try all other means, but if the wound Heal not, then use the knife, lest to the clean From the diseased…

— Ovid

With wavering steps does fickle fortune stray, Nowhere she finds a firm and fixed abode; But now all smiles, and now again…

— Ovid

As God is propitiated by the blood of a hundred bulls, so also is he by the smallest offering of incense. [Lat.,…

— Ovid

Tis on the living Envy feeds. She silent grows When, after death, man's honor is his guard. So I, when on the…

— Ovid

While strength and years permit, endure labor; soon bent old age will come with silent foot. [Lat., Dum vires annique sinunt, tolerate…

— Ovid

The dove, O hawk, that has once been wounded by thy talons, is frightened by the least movement of a wing. [Lat.,…

— Ovid

What ignorance there is in human minds.

— Ovid

Giving calls for genius.

— Ovid

Tempus fugit (time flies).

— Ovid

Love is an affair of credulity.

— Ovid

Often they benefit who suffer wrong.

— Ovid

A bitter drug oft brings relief.

— Ovid

“Darkness makes any woman fair.”

— Ovid

The act is judged of by the event.

— Ovid

Love is a kind of warfare.

— Ovid

everything changes, nothing perishes

— Ovid

Chaste is she whom no one has asked.

— Ovid