Quotes from Ovid

As Ceres drank what she gave her, an insolent, coarse-looking boy strolled up in front of the goddess, burst into laughter and jeered, 'What a greedy female you are!' Deeply insulted, she rapidly threw what was left of her drink in the prattling idiot's face and drenched him in barley mixture.

She saw Narcissus roaming through the country, / Saw him, and burned, and followed him in secret / Burning the more she followed, as when sulfur / Smeared on the rim of torches, catches fire / When other fire comes near it. Oh, how often / She wanted to come near with coaxing speeches, / Make soft entreaties to him! / But her nature / Sternly forbids...

Wij mensen zijn dan ook gehard en tehen veel bestand, een wezenlijk bewijs van dat waaruit wij zijn geschapen.

I congratulate myself on not having arrived into this world until the present time. This age suits my taste.

Et ignotas animum dimittit in artes / And he applies his mind to unknown arts

Even the Sun, whose star-born radiance Governs all the world, became the thrall of love.

There is nothing constant in the universe. All ebb and flow, and every shape that's born, bears in its womb the seeds of change.

Between the houses was a common wall, Flawed with a narrow chink long years ago, When it was built. This chink, so long unnoticed- But what does it not see? - those lovers found And made of it their voices' passageway, And safely flowed the whispered words of love

in flammam flammas, in mare fundis aquas

Se, mikä on sallittua, ei ole mieluisaa. Mikä on kiellettyä, siihen on palava halu.

You will be separated from yourself and yet be alive.

Quid vos perdiderit, dicam? nescistis amare: Defuit ars vobis; arte perennat amor. ?? ??? ???????? ?? ????? ??????: ????????? ????????? - ?????? ????????? ????? ???? ???????? ????.

Fas est ab hoste doceri.

If any one loves an object which he delights to love, enraptured, in his happiness, let him rejoice, and let him sail with prospering gales. But if any one impatiently endures the sway of some cruel fair, that he may not be undone, let him experience relief from my skill

Faults are hidden at night: every blemish is forgiven.

So long as you are secure you will count many friends; if your life becomes clouded you will be alone.

Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.

People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.

Barbarus hic ego sum, quia non intelligor illis

Man was made to hold his head erect in majesty and see the sky

Militat omnis amans.

Let the storm have its will of man – but let storm and poem reach their end, I pray, each at the same time!

Simplicity, very rare in our age.