Quotes from Ovid

It is some relief to weep; grief is satisfied and carried off by tears.

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

Leave war to others; 'tis Protesilaus' part of love.

Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.

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

The result proves the wisdom of the act.

Isn't the best defense always a good attack?

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

What makes men indifferent to their wives is that they can see them when they please.

It is ill to marry in the month of May.

If thou wouldst marry wisely marry thine equal.

Then autumn comes, with its first flush of youth gone, but ripe and mellow, midway in time between youth and age, with sprinkled grey showing on the temples.

Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.

Let the man who does not wish to be idle, fall in love.

The man who falls in love chill find plenty of occupation.

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

It is a pleasure appropriate to man, for him to save a fellow-man, and gratitude is acquired in no better way.

The whole earth is the brave man's country. [Lat., Omne solum forti patria est.]

Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.

Adde, quod ingénues didicisse fideliter artes Emollit mores, nec sinit esse fervos. To be instructed in the arts, softens the manners and makes men gentle.

Daring is not safe against daring men.

Man should ever look to his last day, and no one should be called happy before his funeral. [Lat., Ultima semper Expectanda dies homini est, dicique beatus Ante obitum nemo et suprema funera debet.]

Neglect of appearance becomes men.

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