Quotes from Ovid

Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength.

No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.

Alas! How difficult it is to prevent the countenance from betraying guilt!

Forbear to lay the guilt of a few on the many.

Happy the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying, once and for all.

The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.

Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.

In sweet water there is a pleasure ungrudged by anyone.

Skilled in every trick, a worthy heir of his paternal craft, he would make black look like white, and white look black.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

You do not know it but you are the talk of all the town.

Delay is a great procuress.

Luck affects everything; let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it, there will be a fish

Fortune and love favour the brave.

Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.

To be silent is but a small virtue; but it is a serious fault to reveal secrets.

Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.

Idleness ruins the constitution

Envy feeds on the living. It ceases when they are dead.

Envy depreciates the genius of the great Homer.

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

A short absence is safest

Here shame dissuades him, there his fear prevails, And each by turns his aching heart assails.

Every lover is a soldier and has his camp in Cupid.