Quotes from Ovid

Happy the man who can count his sufferings.

Few love what they may have.

The vulgar herd estimate friendship by its advantages. [Lat., Vulgus amicitias utilitate probat.]

How little you know about the age you live in if you think that honey is sweeter than cash in hand.

Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.

Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.

If you want to be loved, be lovable.

Fortune and love favor the brave.

Love is full of anxious fears.

As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

Love that is fed by jealousy dies hard

Love fed fat soon turns to boredom

Love is a believing creature

Love is a kind of warfare.

What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps; with it alone, she lives.

The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool.

Some report elsewhere whatever is told them; the measure of fiction always increases, and each fresh narrator adds something to what he has heard.

First appearance deceives many.

God himself favors the brave.

The vulgar crowd values friends according to their usefulness

Let what is irksome become habitual, no more will it trouble you.

Truly now is the golden age; the highest honour comes by means of gold; by gold love is procured.

Birth and ancestry, and that which we have not ourselves achieved, we can scarcely call our own

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