Ovid

A short absence is the safest.

— Ovid

I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement.

— Ovid

Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

— Ovid

Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

— Ovid

It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.

— Ovid

The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.

— Ovid

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

— Ovid

Love is full of anxious fears.

— Ovid

Neglect of appearance becomes men.

— Ovid

When disposition wins us, the features please.

— Ovid

The time will come when it will disgust you to look in the mirror.

— Ovid

We are slow to believe that which if believed would hurt our feelings.

— Ovid

People are slow to believe that, which if believed would work them harm.

— Ovid

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

— Ovid

All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

— Ovid

To give requires good sense.

— Ovid

How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

— Ovid

A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.

— Ovid

People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.

— Ovid

The burden which is well borne becomes light.

— Ovid

Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

— Ovid

Fortune and love favor the brave.

— Ovid

Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.

— Ovid

An evil life is a kind of death.

— Ovid

We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.

— Ovid

Time is generally the best doctor.

— Ovid

In an easy matter. Anybody can be eloquent.

— Ovid

The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

— Ovid

Bear patiently with a rival.

— Ovid

Envy feeds on the living, after death it rests, then the honor of a man protects him.

— Ovid

Envy aims very high.

— Ovid

The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

— Ovid

Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.

— Ovid

I am above being injured by fortune, though she steals away much, more will remain with me. The blessing I now enjoy transcend fear.

— Ovid

Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish.

— Ovid

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

— Ovid

Gifts, believe me, captivate both men and Gods, Jupiter himself was won over and appeased by gifts.

— Ovid

Forbear to lay the guilt of a few on the many.

— Ovid

Habits change into character.

— Ovid

Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.

— 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

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

It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

— Ovid

My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.

— Ovid

A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.

— Ovid

In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are.

— Ovid

This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

— Ovid

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

— Ovid

There is something in omens.

— Ovid

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

— Ovid

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

— Ovid

Keep a mid course between two extremes.

— Ovid

You will go most safely in the middle.

— Ovid

Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships, the poor man everywhere lies low.

— Ovid

Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.

— Ovid

Always have your hook baited, in the pool you least think, there will be a fish.

— Ovid

The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late.

— Ovid

That you may please others you must be forgetful of yourself.

— Ovid

Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.

— Ovid

Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned.

— Ovid

It is no less a feat to keep what you have, than to increase it. In one there is chance, the other will be a work of art.

— Ovid

Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.

— Ovid

Make the workmanship surpass the materials.

— Ovid

What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

— Ovid

What is without periods of rest will not endure.

— Ovid

Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.

— 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

All things human hang by a slender thread; and that which seemed to stand strong suddenly falls and sinks in ruins.

— Ovid

Skill makes love unending.

— Ovid

Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

— Ovid

Had I not sinned what would there be for you to pardon. My fate has given you the opportunity for mercy.

— Ovid

Well has he lived who has lived well in obscurity.

— Ovid

Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.

— Ovid

Remove the temptation of idleness and cupids bow is useless.

— Ovid

Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.

— Ovid

Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

— Ovid

Nothing is swifter than our years.

— Ovid

Time is the devourer of all things.

— Ovid

Although they posses enough, and more than enough still they yearn for more.

— Ovid

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

— Ovid

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.

— Ovid

Two-headed Janus, opener of the softly gliding year, thou who alone of the celestials dost behold thy back, O come propitious to the chiefs whose toil ensures peace to the fruitful earth, peace to the sea.

— Ovid

Our Roman fathers gave the name of februa to instruments of purification. . . . The month is called after these things, because the Luperci purify the whole ground with strips of hide, which are their instruments of cleansing, or because the season is pure when once peace-offerings have been made at the graves and the days devoted to the dead are past. Our sires believed that every sin and every cause of ill could be wiped out by rites of purgation.

— Ovid

Some there are who grudge thee the honour of the month, and would snatch it from thee, Venus. For they say that April was named from the open (apertum) season, because spring then opens (aperit) all things, and the sharp frost-bound cold departs, and earth unlocks her teeming soil, though kindly Venus claims the month and lays her hand on it.

— Ovid

I incline to think that the elders [maiores] gave their own name to the month of May: they considered the interests of their own class. . . . No slight proof of the proposed honour is furnished by the next month, the month of June, which is named after young men [juvenes ].

— Ovid