Quotes from Ovid

ingenium mala saepe movent

Now I am ready to tell how bodies are changed Into different bodies.

Ah, wretched me! that love is not to be cured by any herbs; and that those arts which afford relief to all, are of no avail for their master.

Winds sweep the summits, envy seeks the heights.

dumque sitim sedare cupit, sitis altera crevit

Vilia miretur vulgus; mihi flavus Apollo Pocula Castalia plena ministret aqua. — Venus & Adonis, May 1593

By faithful study of the nobler arts, our nature's softened, and more gentle grows.

Vain sopimaton miellyttää, vain oma nautinto kiinnostaa, ja toisten murheet viihdyttävät eniten.

The brave find a home in every land

May the world near and far dread the sons of Aeneas, and if there be land that feared not Rome, may it love Rome instead.

Lesbia quid docuit Sappho nisi amare puellas?

una duos nox perdet amantes. one night loses two lovers.

et ignotas animum dimittit in artes, naturamque nouat.

And last her voice remained. Vanished in forest

And warns us to use life's beauty as it blooms. The thorn is spurned when the rose has dropped.

Wait for the final day. Call no man happy until he is dead and his body is laid to rest in the grave.

I am prepared for any crime, my sister, / To burn the palace, and into the flaming ruin / Hurl Tereus, the author of all evils. / I would cut out his tongue, his eyes, cut off / The parts which brought you shame...

Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.

they cast the stones behind: The stones (a miracle to mortal view, But long tradition makes it pass for true) Did first the rigour of their kind expel, And suppled into softness, as they fell

Male beauty's better for neglect.

Saepe tepent alii iuvenes: ego semper amavi,/ Et si, quid faciam, nunc quoque, quaeris, amo.

How I wish your eyes were able to pierce deep down to my heart and catch a glimpse of your father's anxiety.

If a god said 'Live, and set love aside' I'd say 'no'! Girls are such sweet misfortune.

Thus earth of late so rude, So shapeless, man, till now unknown, became.