Ovid

That you may be beloved, be amiable.

— Ovid

Do not believe hastily.

— Ovid

The bold adventurer succeeds the best.

— Ovid

You will be safest in the middle.

— Ovid

Nothing is stronger than habit.

— Ovid

This victory will be your I ruin.

— Ovid

Love is a thing full of anxious fears.

— Ovid

Pleasant words are the food of love.

— 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

He who has lived obscurely and quietly has lived well.

— Ovid

Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe.

— Ovid

There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.

— Ovid

I see and approve better things, but follow worse.

— Ovid

The mind that's conscious of its rectitude, Laughs at the lies of rumor.

— Ovid

“in flammam flammas, in mare fundis aquas”

— Ovid

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

— Ovid

If you would conquer Love, he must be fought At his first onslaught; sprinkle but a drop Of water, the new-kindled flame…

— Ovid

“Perfer et obdura, dolor hic tibi proderit olim. (Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.)”

— Ovid

If Jupiter hurled his thunderbolt as often as men sinned, he would soon be out of thunderbolts.

— Ovid

There is no pleasure pure and simple, and some care always comes to mar our joys.

— Ovid

As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

— Ovid

A mind conscious of right laughs at the falsehoods of rumour. [Lat., Conscia mens recti famae mendacia risit.]

— Ovid

Truly now is the golden age; the highest honour comes by means of gold; by gold love is procured.

— Ovid

May you live unenvied, and pass many pleasant years unknown to fame; and also have congenial friends. [Lat., Vive sine invidia, mollesque…

— Ovid

Sleep, rest of nature, O sleep, most gentle of the divinities, peace of the soul, thou at whose presence care disappears, who…

— Ovid

Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long…

— Ovid

“I got nervous at bulls and eagles, Trying to figure what shape Zeus might take for sex When it could be your…

— Ovid

Nothing is so high and above all danger that is not below and in the power of God. [Lat., Nihil ita sublime…

— Ovid

A safe pleasure is a tame pleasure.

— Ovid

Nothing is swifter than our years.

— Ovid

Time, motion and wine cause sleep.

— Ovid

A short absence is safest

— Ovid

Against the bold, daring is unsafe.

— Ovid

Skill makes love unending.

— Ovid

Everything changes, nothing is lost.

— Ovid

Habits change into character.

— Ovid

“My vengeance is my guilt”

— Ovid

Dripping water hollows out a stone

— Ovid

Simplicity is a jewel rarely found.

— Ovid