Quotes from Ovid

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

Leve fit quod bene fertur onus. The burden which is well borne becomes light.

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

Fortune and Love befriend the bold.

Nor is there any law more just, than that he who has plotted death shall perish by his own plot.

What we call birth Is but a beginning to be something else Than what we were before; and when we cease To be that something, then we call it death.

In an easy matter. Anybody can be eloquent.

Envy aims very high.

The cause is hidden; the effect is visible to all.

We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.

To wish is of little account; to succeed you must earnestly desire; and this desire must shorten thy sleep.

We are always striving for things forbidden, and coveting those denied us.

I am dragged along by a strange new force. Desire and reason are pulling in different directions. I see the right way and approve it, but follow the wrong.

What is allowed us is disagreeable, what is denied us causes us intense desire.

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.

You can learn from anyone even your enemy.

Art lies by its own artifice.

Dripping water hollows out a stone

There is no excellence uncoupled with difficulties.

There is no excellency without difficulty.

Put faith in one who's had experience.

An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

He who has lived obscurely and quietly has lived well.

Stop short of your appetite; eat less than you are able.