Quotes from Ovid

What is harder than rock, or softer than water? Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere.

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

Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.

Perfer et obdura; dolor hic tibi proderit olim. Have patience and endure; this unhappiness will one day be beneficial.

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

Poetry comes fine-spun from a mind at peace.

Fair peace is becoming to men; fierce anger belongs to beasts.

Sleep ... peace of the soul, who puttest care to flight.

Fair peace becomes men ferocious anger belongs to beasts.

It is expedient that there should be gods, and, since it is expedient, let us believe that gods exist.

If the art is concealed, it succeeds.

Change is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Happy is he who dares courageously to defend what he loves.

Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him, Easy-going enough once you acknowledge his power.

As God is propitiated by the blood of a hundred bulls, so also is he by the smallest offering of incense. [Lat., Sed tamen ut fuso taurorum sanguine centum, Sic capitur minimo thuris honore deux.]

God himself favors the brave.

If God be my friend, I cannot be wretched.

There is a God within us, and we glow when He stirs us.

The god we now behold with opened eyes, A herd of spotted panthers round him lies In glaring forms; the grapy clusters spread On his fair brows, and dangle on his head.

There is a god within us, and the heavens Have intercourse with earth; from realms above That spirit comes.

There is a God within us and intercourse with heaven. [Lat., Est deus in nobis; et sunt commercia coeli.]

Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.

Luck affects everything; let your hook always be cast.

To give requires good sense.