Ovid Quotes

The most wretched fortune is safe; for there is no fear of anything worse. [Lat., Fortuna miserrima tuta est: Nam timor eventus deterioris abest.]

How little you know about the age you live in if you think that honey is sweeter than cash in hand

There is a certain pleasure in weeping.

Time, motion and wine cause sleep.

Leve fit quod bene fertur onus. The burden which is well borne becomes light.

The mind alone can not be exiled. [Lat., Mens sola loco non exulat.]

Sickness seizes the body from bad ventilation.

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

Every lover is a soldier. (Love is a warfare.) [Lat., Militat omnis amans.]

Money nowadays is money; money brings office; money gains friends; everywhere the poor man is down. [Lat., In pretio pretium nunc est; dat census honores, Census amicitias; pauper ubique jacet.]

All human things hang on a slender thread, the strongest fall with a sudden crash.

Give way to your opponent; thus will you gain the crown of victory.

Tis not always in a physician's power to cure the sick; at times the disease is stronger than trained art.

When all the other animals, downcast looked upon the earth, he [Prometheus] gave a face raised on high to man, and commanded him to see the sky and raise his high eyes to the stars.

You who seek an end of love, love yields to business: be busy, and you will be safe.

Envy depreciates the genius of the great Homer.

Let what is irksome become habitual, no more will it trouble you.

He is a foolish swimmer who swims against the stream, when he might take the current sideways.

An injury may prove a blessing.

Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.

Time is generally the best doctor.

A field becomes exhausted by constant tillage.

Either do not attempt at all or go through with it.

That load becomes light which is cheerfully borne.

Simplicity, very rare in our age.

A short absence is the safest.

Alas! How difficult it is to prevent the countenance from betraying guilt!

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.

Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Thanks are justly due for things got without purchase. [Lat., Gratia pro rebus merito debetur inemtis.]

Against the bold, daring is unsafe.

An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

Jupiter has no leisure to attend to little things.

Those presents are the most acceptable which are enhanced by our regard for the donor.

Diseases of the mind impair the bodily powers.

Our advantages fly away without aid. Pluck the flower. [Lat., Nostra sine auxilio fugiunt bona. Carpite florem.]

Use the occasion, for it passes swiftly.

Calumny ever pursues the great, even as the winds hurl themselves on high places.

If you give up your quiet life, the bow of Cupid will lose its power.

Little things please little minds.

Neglect of appearance becomes men.

Man should ever look to his last day, and no one should be called happy before his funeral. [Lat., Ultima semper Expectanda dies homini est, dicique beatus Ante obitum nemo et suprema funera debet.]

Adde, quod ingénues didicisse fideliter artes Emollit mores, nec sinit esse fervos. To be instructed in the arts, softens the manners and makes men gentle.

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

Wine prepares the heart for love, unless you take too much.

Pursuits become habits. [Lat., Abeunt studia in mores.]

Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.

Venus is kind to creatures as young as we;We know not what we do, and while we're youngWe have the right to live and love like gods.

It is a pleasure appropriate to man, for him to save a fellow-man, and gratitude is acquired in no better way.

Daring is not safe against daring men.