Quotes from Ovid

And now I have finished the work, which neither the wrath of Jove, nor fire, nor the sword, nor devouring age shall be able to destroy.

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

We believe slowly when belief brings pain.

Be bold, take courage... and be strong of soul.

I can live neither with you, nor without you.

O gods, If any gods will listen, I deserve Punishment surely, I do not refuse it, But lest, in living, I offend the living, Offend the dead in death, drive me away From either realm, change me somehow, refuse me Both life and death! -- Myrrha, before being transformed into a tree

Nothing retains its original form, but Nature, the goddess of all renewal, keeps altering one shape into another. Nothing at all in the world can perish, you have to believe me; things merely vary and change their appearance. What we call birth is merely becoming a different entity; what we call death is ceasing to be the same. Though the parts may possibly shift their position from here to there, the wholeness in nature is constant.

We need to accept the strangeness of things as they are.

Our native land charms us with inexpressible sweetness, and never, never allows us to forget that we belong to it.

Argus, you are fallen, and the light in all your lamps is utterly put out: one hundred eyes, one darkness all the same!

Agamemnon escaped with his life From land battles and sea storms, then fell to his wife.

Not knowing what he sees, he adores the sight; That false face fools and fuels his delight

Apollo Loves at first sight; he wants to marry Daphne, He hopes for what he wants—all wishful thinking!

His eyes that swam in death's dark night looked round For Athis, and he lay down by his side, Solaced among the shades to share his death.

who can carry The incineration of a Universe?

Her clear conscience mocked rumour's mendacity, But we are a mob prone to credit sin.

the gods are created by poets --Ovid

Keep your run along a course between those constellations. I leave the rest to Fortune: may she help and guide you better than you do yourself.

To live well is to live unnoticed. Bene qui latuit bene dixit.

And he sets his mind to unknown arts

Dicere quae puduit, scribere jussit amor

Nothing is stronger than Custom (Fac tibi consuescat: nil adsuetudine maius)

But love, resistless love, my soul invades, discretion this, affection that perswades. I see the right and I approve it too, condemn the wrong and yet the wrong pursue.

What did Sappho of Lesbos teach but how to love women?