Ovid

Keep thy hook always baited, for a fish lurks even in the most unlikely swim.

— Ovid

Sickness seizes the body from bad ventilation.

— Ovid

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

— Ovid

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

— Ovid

Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.

— Ovid

He who says o'er much I love not is in love.

— Ovid

The least strength suffices to break what is bruised.

— Ovid

The workmanship was better than the subject matter.

— Ovid

I attempt a difficult work; but there is no excellence without difficulty. [Lat., Ardua molimur; sed nulla nisi ardua virtus.]

— Ovid

Consider the misfortunes of others, and you will be the better able to bear your own.

— Ovid

Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.

— Ovid

“you put too much faith in the power of the gods, if you think they can give and take away the shape…

— Ovid

Work while your strength and years permit you; crooked age will by-and-by come upon you with silent foot.

— Ovid

Had I not sinned what would there be for you to pardon. My fate has given you the opportunity for mercy.

— Ovid

So long as you are secure you will count many friends; if your life becomes clouded you will be alone.

— Ovid

He lives well who lives retired, and keeps His wants within the limits of his means.

— Ovid

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

— Ovid

When there is plenty of wine, sorrow and worry take wing.

— Ovid

Fools laugh at the Latin language. -Rident stolidi verba Latina

— Ovid

It is good to be taught even by an enemy

— Ovid

What is reason now was passion heretofore.

— Ovid

The laws allow arms to be taken against an armed foe.

— Ovid

Luck affects everything; let your hook always be cast.

— Ovid

Though the power be wanting, yet the wish is praiseworthy.

— Ovid

“what we have been, or now are, we shall not be tomorrow”

— Ovid

Man looks aloft, and with erected eyes Beholds his hereditary skies.

— Ovid

I shall speak facts; but some will say I deal in fiction.

— Ovid

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

— Ovid

“Dicere quae puduit, scribere jussit amor”

— Ovid

Lovers remember everything. [Lat., Meminerunt omnia amantes.]

— Ovid

Twice does he live who can enjoy the remembrance of the past.

— Ovid

We suffer by our proximity. [Who get a blow intended for another.]

— Ovid

Value each lover according to the gifts he brings.

— Ovid

Poetry comes fine-spun from a mind at peace.

— Ovid

Where belief is painful we are slow to believe.

— Ovid

Spare the soul that feels a deadly wound.

— Ovid

“The result justifies the deed (Exitus acta probat)”

— Ovid

Tis you, alone, can save, or give my doom.

— Ovid

“for no god may undo what another god has done...”

— Ovid

Those gifts are ever more precious which the giver has made precious.

— Ovid