Ovid

The act is judged of by the event.

— Ovid

A bitter drug oft brings relief.

— Ovid

Often they benefit who suffer wrong.

— Ovid

Love is an affair of credulity.

— Ovid

Tempus fugit (time flies).

— Ovid

Giving calls for genius.

— Ovid

What ignorance there is in human minds.

— Ovid

Trivial losses often prove great gains.

— Ovid

In an easy matter. Anybody can be eloquent.

— Ovid

That you may please others you must be forgetful of yourself.

— Ovid

I see and praise what is better, but follow what is worse.

— Ovid

Burdens become light when cheerfully borne.

— Ovid

Agreeing to differ. [Lat., Discors concordia.]

— Ovid

Friendship is but a name; fidelity but an empty name.

— Ovid

Tears are at times as eloquent as words. [Weeping hath a voice.]

— Ovid

Very slight violence will break that which has once been cracked.

— Ovid

There is a God within us and intercourse with heaven. [Lat., Est deus in nobis; et sunt commercia coeli.]

— Ovid

Every delay that postpones our joys, is long. [Lat., Longa mora est nobis omnis, quae gaudia differt.]

— Ovid

Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.

— Ovid

Great talents, by the rust of long disuse, Grow lethargic and shrink from what they were.

— Ovid

What is hid is unknown: for what is unknown there is no desire. [Lat., Quod latet ignotum est; ignoti nulla cupido.]

— Ovid

Heavens! what thick darkness pervades the minds of men. [Lat., Pro superi! quantum mortalia pectora caecae, Noctis habent.]

— Ovid

The applause and the favour of our fellow-men Fan even a spark of genius to a flame.

— Ovid

We praise times past, while we times present use; Yet due the worship which to each we give.

— Ovid

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

— Ovid

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

— Ovid

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

— Ovid

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

— Ovid

When worse may yet befall, there's room for prayer, But when our fortune's at its lowest ebb, We trample fear beneath our…

— Ovid

Truly it is allowed us to weep: by weeping we disperse our wrath; and tears go through the heart, even like a…

— Ovid

Fair Flora! Now attend thy sportful feast, Of which some days I with design have past; A part in April and a…

— Ovid

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

— Ovid

A short absence is the safest.

— Ovid

The love of fame puts spurs to the mind

— Ovid

The gods have their own rules.

— Ovid

There is a certain pleasure in weeping.

— Ovid

Love is a credulous thing.

— Ovid

Love is no assignment for cowards.

— Ovid

Love fed fat soon turns to boredom.

— Ovid

Time is the devourer of all things.

— Ovid