Quotes from Ovid

Good-bye to the lies of the poets. [Lat., Valeant mendacia vatum.]

Giving requires good sense. [Lat., Rest est ingeniosa dare.]

If you count the sunny and the cloudy days of the whole year, you will find that the sunshine predominates.

Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.

God himself helps those who dare.

The brave find a home in every land.

It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.

Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.

It is hope which makes the shipwrecked sailor strike out with his arms in the midst of the sea, though no land is in sight.

The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.

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

The end doesn't justify the means.

What is without periods of rest will not endure.

Nothing is stronger than habit.

Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.

Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves.

Little things please little minds.

Use the occasion, for it passes swiftly.

He who has it in his power to commit sin, is less inclined to do so. The very idea of being able, weakens the desire.

Tis not always in a physician's power to cure the sick; at times the disease is stronger than trained art.

Although the power is lacking, the will is commendable.

Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.

Nothing is so high and above all danger that is not below and in the power of God. [Lat., Nihil ita sublime est, supraque pericula tendit Non sit ut inferius suppositumque deo.]