Quotes from Ovid

Today is truly the Golden Age: gold buys hornor, gold procures love

Destroy our leisure and you break love's bow.

Ovid lies here, the poet, skilled in love's gentle sport; By his own talents he worked his undoing. Oh, you who pass by, if ever you have loved, Think it not a burden to wish him calm repose.

If you would conquer Love, he must be fought At his first onslaught; sprinkle but a drop Of water, the new-kindled flame expires.

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

Let what is irksome become habitual, no more will it trouble you.

Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.

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

A field becomes exhausted by constant tillage.

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

All things change, nothing is extinguished.

The prickly thorn often bears soft roses.

Happy is the man who ventures boldly to defend what he holds dear.

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

Few people want the pleasures they are free to take.

Burdens become light when cheerfully borne.

The crop always seems better in our neighbor's field, and our neighbor's cow gives more milk.

Nothing is more powerful than habit.

Time is the devourer of all things.

Time is a stream which glides smoothly on and is past before we know.

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

Sleep, rest of nature, O sleep, most gentle of the divinities, peace of the soul, thou at whose presence care disappears, who soothest hearts wearied with daily employments, and makest them strong again for labour!

In an easy cause any man may be eloquent.

Either do not attempt at all, or go through with it.