Quotes from Ovid

You will go most safely in the middle.

Bear patiently with a rival.

The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal.

Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

The vulgar crowd values friends according to their usefulness.

The bold adventurer succeeds the best.

Often they benefit who suffer wrong.

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

A man is sorry to be honest for nothing.

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

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

Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts. [Lat., Candida pax homines, trux decet ira feras.]

According to the state of a man's conscience, so do hope and fear on account of his deeds arise in his mind.

The deeds of men never escape the gods. [Lat., Acta deos nunquam mortalia fallunt.]

The swallow is not ensnared by men because of its gentle nature. [Lat., At caret insidiis hominum, quia mitis, hirundo.]

Every man should stay within his own fortune. [Lat., Intera fortunam quisque debet manere suam.]

Men should not care too much for good looks; neglect is becoming.

Nothing is more useful to man that those arts which have no utility.

Presents, believe me, seduce both men and gods.

God gave man an upright countenance to survey the heavens, and to look upward to the stars.

Not for any one man's delight has Nature made the sun, the wind, the waters; all are free.

If Jupiter should hurl a bolt whenever men sin, His armory would quickly be empty.

Let the poor man mind his tongue

Bring a lawsuit against a man who can pay; the poor man's acts are not worth the expense