Quotes by Ovid

"It is annoying to be honest to no purpose."

"Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish."

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

"Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay."

"An evil life is a kind of death."

"The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool."

"It is a smaller thing to suffer punishment than to have deserved it."

"Whether they yield or refuse, it delights women to have been asked."

"Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them."

"Love is a kind of warfare."

"All love is vanquished by a succeeding love."

"Fortune and love favor the brave."

"I can't live either without you or with you."

"Bear patiently with a rival."

"If you want to be loved, be lovable."

"All things change; nothing perishes."

"Habits change into character."

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

"The bold adventurer succeeds the best."

"Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it."

"Time is generally the best doctor."

"It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are."

"First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, 'I believe,' three times."

"Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked."

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

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

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

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

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

"Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength."

"Who would have known of Hector, if Troy had been happy? The road to valor is built by adversity."

"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."

"Beauty is a fragile gift."

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

"Fair peace becomes men ferocious anger belongs to beasts."

"Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul."

"Art lies by its own artifice."

"Like fragile ice anger passes away in time."