“Take rest; a field that has rested gives a beautiful crop.”
― Ovid
“Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships; the poor man everywhere lies low.”
― Ovid
“Time is generally the best doctor.”
― Ovid
“There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.”
― Ovid
“Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.”
― Ovid
“No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.”
― Ovid
“Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.”
― Ovid
“Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.”
― Ovid
“Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts.”
― Ovid
“A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.”
― Ovid
“It is the poor man who’ll ever count his flock.”
― Ovid
“Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.”
― Ovid
“Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.”
― Ovid
“Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be fish.”
― Ovid
“The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.”
― Ovid
“In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are.”
― Ovid
“The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.”
― Ovid
“The cause is hidden; the effect is visible to all.”
― Ovid
“Tears at times have the weight of speech.”
― Ovid
“What makes men indifferent to their wives is that they can see them when they please.”
― Ovid
“Bear patiently with a rival.”
― Ovid
“Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish.”
― Ovid
“All things can corrupt when minds are prone to evil.”
― Ovid
“Give way to your opponent; thus will you gain the crown of victory.”
― Ovid
“The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.”
― Ovid
“Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.”
― Ovid
“Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.”
― Ovid
“Beauty is a fragile gift.”
― Ovid
“At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.”
― Ovid
“Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.”
― Ovid
“The heavier crop is ever in others’ fields.”
― Ovid
“Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.”
― Ovid
“Everyone’s a millionaire where promises are concerned.”
― Ovid
“Against the bold, daring is unsafe.”
― Ovid
“Every lover is a soldier.”
― Ovid
“Alas! how difficult it is not to betray one’s guilt by one’s looks.”
― Ovid
“The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.”
― Ovid
“Make the workmanship surpass the materials.”
― Ovid
“Death is less bitter punishment than death’s delay.”
― Ovid
“Fortune and love favor the brave.”
― Ovid
“Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength.”
― Ovid
“Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.”
― Ovid
“Most safely shall you tread the middle path.”
― Ovid
“Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.”
― Ovid
“Let what is irksome become habitual, no more will it trouble you.”
― Ovid
“An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.”
― Ovid
“If you want to be loved, be lovable.”
― Ovid
“A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.”
― Ovid
“Either do not attempt at all, or go through with it.”
― Ovid
“The bold adventurer succeeds the best.”
― Ovid
“I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement.”
― Ovid
“The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.”
― Ovid
“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.”
― Ovid
“First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, ‘I believe,’ three times.”
― Ovid
“Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.”
― Ovid
“A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man’s brow.”
― Ovid
“Enhance and intensify one’s vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.”
― Ovid
“Time, the devourer of all things.”
― Ovid
“Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.”
― Ovid
“Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.”
― Ovid
“Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.”
― Ovid
“It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.”
― Ovid
“Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery.”
― Ovid
“Little things please little minds.”
― Ovid
“Art lies by its own artifice.”
― Ovid
“All love is vanquished by a succeeding love.”
― Ovid
“He who says o’er much I love not is in love.”
― Ovid
“We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.”
― Ovid
“My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.”
― Ovid
“Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.”
― Ovid
“Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.”
― Ovid
“Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.”
― Ovid
“Love is a thing that is full of cares and fears.”
― Ovid
“Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.”
― Ovid
“Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves.”
― Ovid
“The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool.”
― Ovid
“Time, motion and wine cause sleep.”
― Ovid
“What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless.”
― Ovid
“Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.”
― Ovid
“First appearance deceives many.”
― Ovid
“You can learn from anyone even your enemy.”
― Ovid
“There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.”
― Ovid
“You will go most safely in the middle.”
― Ovid
“It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are.”
― Ovid
“How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.”
― Ovid
“People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.”
― Ovid
“An evil life is a kind of death.”
― Ovid
“Envy aims very high.”
― Ovid
“Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.”
― Ovid
“A man is sorry to be honest for nothing.”
― Ovid
“Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.”
― Ovid
“If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.”
― Ovid
“The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late.”
― Ovid
“Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.”
― Ovid
“What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.”
― Ovid
“Daring is not safe against daring men.”
― Ovid
“Majesty and love do not consort well together, nor do they dwell in the same place.”
― Ovid
“Time is the devourer of all things.”
― Ovid
“The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.”
― Ovid
“Venus favors the bold.”
― Ovid
“The burden which is well borne becomes light.”
― Ovid
“In an easy matter. Anybody can be eloquent.”
― Ovid
“What is without periods of rest will not endure.”
― Ovid
“Love is full of anxious fears.”
― Ovid
“He who can believe himself well, will be well.”
― Ovid
“Habits change into character.”
― Ovid
“Neglect of appearance becomes men.”
― Ovid
“Love is a kind of warfare.”
― Ovid
“Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.”
― Ovid
“What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps; with it alone, she lives.”
― Ovid
“There is a god within us.”
― Ovid
“Where belief is painful we are slow to believe.”
― Ovid
“To feel our ills is one thing, but to cure them is another.”
― Ovid
“Use the occasion, for it passes swiftly.”
― Ovid
“He whom all hate all wish to see destroyed.”
― Ovid
“Often they benefit who suffer wrong.”
― Ovid
“The gods behold all righteous actions.”
― Ovid
“The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal.”
― Ovid
“The vulgar crowd values friends according to their usefulness.”
― Ovid
“He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.”
― Ovid
“Ah me! Love can not be cured by herbs.”
― Ovid
“Love is a credulous thing.”
― Ovid
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