Quotes from Ovid

Remove the temptation of idleness and cupids bow is useless.

Love is full of anxious fears.

When there is plenty of wine, sorrow and worry take wing.

The ends justify the means.

Sleep, rest of things, O pleasing Deity, Peace of the soul, which cares dost crucify, Weary bodies refresh and mollify.

Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.

Make the workmanship surpass the materials.

Thanks are justly due for boons unbought.

Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.

Envy assails the noblest: the winds howl around the highest peaks.

They come to see; they come that they themselves may be seen.

Love yields to business. If you seek a way out of love, be busy; you'll be safe then.

And now I have finished a work that neither the wrath of love, nor fire, nor the sword, nor devouring age shall be able to destroy.

I see and approve better things, but follow worse.

We can learn even from our enemies.

Fortune and love favor the brave.

Run slowly, horses of the night.

Every lover is a warrior, and Cupid has his camps.

I hate a woman who offers herself because she ought to do so, and, cold and dry, thinks of her sewing when she's making love.

[Chaos] A rough, unordered mass of things.

Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.

It is some relief to weep; grief is satisfied and carried off by tears.

Fair peace becomes men ferocious anger belongs to beasts.

All human things hang on a slender thread, the strongest fall with a sudden crash.