Words matter. These are the best Ovid Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.
Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.
Majesty and love do not consort well together, nor do they dwell in the same place.
A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.
First appearance deceives many.
Ah me! Love can not be cured by herbs.
Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves.
Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.
Most safely shall you tread the middle path.
All love is vanquished by a succeeding love.
Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.
In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are.
The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.
Often they benefit who suffer wrong.
What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps; with it alone, she lives.
Take rest; a field that has rested gives a beautiful crop.
Love is a kind of warfare.
Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.
Make the workmanship surpass the materials.
A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
He who can believe himself well, will be well.
Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts.
The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.
Every lover is a soldier.
Love is a credulous thing.
Beauty is a fragile gift.
Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.
To feel our ills is one thing, but to cure them is another.
Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
Time, motion and wine cause sleep.
Envy aims very high.
We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.
Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.
All things can corrupt when minds are prone to evil.
The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late.
There is a god within us.
Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.
Little things please little minds.
Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.
The vulgar crowd values friends according to their usefulness.
Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.
Art lies by its own artifice.
Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.
If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.
Give way to your opponent; thus will you gain the crown of victory.
Habits change into character.
Tears at times have the weight of speech.
Time, the devourer of all things.
Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships; the poor man everywhere lies low.
Let what is irksome become habitual, no more will it trouble you.
The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.
You will go most safely in the middle.
Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.
Use the occasion, for it passes swiftly.
Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.
Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.
Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.
An evil life is a kind of death.
There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.
Against the bold, daring is unsafe.
People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.
The gods behold all righteous actions.
He who says o’er much I love not is in love.
Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, ‘I believe,’ three times.
The cause is hidden; the effect is visible to all.
Bear patiently with a rival.
Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.
Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.
What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.
