Ovid Quotes

By faithful study of the nobler arts, our nature's softened, and more gentle grows.

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

It is good to be taught even by an enemy

Resist beginnings: it is too late to employ medicine when the evil has grown strong by inveterate habit.

A frail gift is beauty, which grows less as time draws on, and is devoured by its own years.

Idleness ruins the constitution

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.

The iron ring is worn out by constant use. [Lat., Ferreus assiduo consumitur anulus usu.]

The spirits run riot in youth.

If the art is concealed, it succeeds.

Nothing aids which may not also injure us. Fire serves us well, but he who plots to burn His neighbor's roof arms his hands with fire.

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

We take no pleasure in permitted joys, But what's forbidden is more keenly sought.

Art is most effective when concealed.

Love conquers all things; let us own her dominion.

A gift in time of need is most acceptable.

Concealed sorrow bursts the heart, and rages within us as an internal fire.

Often they benefit who suffer wrong.

Where belief is painful we are slow to believe.

The sick mind can not bear anything harsh. [Lat., Mensque pati durum sustinet aegra nihil.]

There is a god within us, and the heavens Have intercourse with earth; from realms above That spirit comes.

It's right to learn, even from the enemy.

The wit of man has devised cruel statutes, And nature oft permits what is by law forbid.

As many as the shells that are on the shore, so many are the pains of love; the darts that wound are steeped in much poison.

These are the evils which result from gossiping habits.

A light breath fans the flame, a violent gust extinguishes it.

Put faith in one who's had experience.

When the lightning strikes but one, not one only does it terrify.

Niobe would have been called most blessed of mothers, had she not seemed so herself.

If he should love deny him what he loves!

Thy destiny is only that of man, but thy aspirations may be those of a god.

Yield to him who opposes you; by yielding you conquer.

Women can always be caught; that's the first rule of the game.

Take the advice of light when you're looking at linens or jewels; Looking at faces or forms, take the advice of the day.

Only begin, and you will become eloquent of yourself.

A thousand ills require a thousand cures.

everything changes, nothing perishes

The mind grows sicker than the body in contemplation of it's suffering.

I too am not powerless, and my weapons strike hard.

Seeking is all very well, but holding requires greater talent: Seeking involves some luck; now the demand is for skill.

I cannot keep track of all the vagaries of fashion, Every day, so it seems, brings in a different style.

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

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

What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps with it alone, she lives.

Good hope is often beguiled by her own augury.

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

Grief brims itself and flows away in tears.

Grief is put to flight and assuaged by generous draughts.

That you may be beloved, be amiable.