Quotes from Ovid

So I can't live either without you or with you.

Take rest a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.

Tears at times have all the weight of speech.

The result justifies the deed.

There is a god within us, and we have intercourse with heaven. That spirit comes from abodes on high.

We are slow to believe that which if believed would hurt our feelings.

We two are to ourselves a crowd.

Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.

Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.

Perfer et obdura, dolor hic tibi proderit olim. (Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.)

Fas est ab hoste doceri. One should learn even from one's enemies.

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all." "Be patient and tough; one day this pain will be useful to you.

I am the poet of the poor, because I was poor when I loved; since I could not give gifts, I gave words.

Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.

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.

Eurydice, dying now a second time, uttered no complaint against her husband. What was there to complain of, but that she had been loved?

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

As wave is driven by wave And each, pursued, pursues the wave ahead, So time flies on and follows, flies, and follows, Always, for ever and new. What was before Is left behind; what never was is now; And every passing moment is renewed.

Love will enter cloaked in friendship's name.

Anything cracked will shatter at a touch.

If you would be loved, be lovable

A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.

Nothing is stronger than habit.

God himself helps those who dare.