Quotes from Ovid

People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.

Where belief is painful we are slow to believe.

Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.

Pleasant words are the food of love.

Gold will buy the highest honours; and gold will purchase love.

It is not safe to despise what Love commands. He reigns supreme, and rules the mighty gods.

Love conquers all things; let us own her dominion.

As many as the shells that are on the shore, so many are the pains of love; the darts that wound are steeped in much poison.

If he should love deny him what he loves!

That you may be beloved, be amiable.

The love of country is more powerful than reason itself.

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

Wine, not too much, inspires and make the mind,to the soft joys of Venus strong inclined,which, buried in excess, unapt to love,stupidly lies and knows not hom to move

Love's dominion, like a kings, admits of no partition.

Love is born of idleness and, once born, by idleness is fostered.

He who says o'er much I love not is in love.

Love is a credulous thing.

The love of fame puts spurs to the mind

Friendship is but a name, faith is an empty name. Alas, it is not safe to praise to a friend the object of your love; as soon as he believes your praises, he slips into your place.

The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Love is a thing full of anxious fears.

Let love steal in disguised as friendship.

A lover fears all that he believes.

Hate I shall, if I can; if I can't, I shall love though not willing.