Quotes from Ovid

He who sins easily, sins less. The very power Renders less vigorous the roots of evil.

The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.

Fortune resists half-hearted prayers.

Love is no assignment for cowards.

No thanks attach to a kindness long deferred.

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

Take rest; a field that has rested gives a beautiful crop.

A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.

Tears at times have the weight of speech.

What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

The glow of inspiration warms us; it is a holy rapture.

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

The burden which is well borne becomes light.

In our play we reveal what kind of people we are.

Thus I am not able to exist either with you or without you; and I seem not to know my own wishes.

Courage conquers all things.

Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned.

All things can corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

He whom all hate all wish to see destroyed.

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.

Work while your strength and years permit you; crooked age will by-and-by come upon you with silent foot.

The least strength suffices to break what is bruised.

Struggling over my fickle heart, love draws it now this way, and now hate that--but love, I think, is winning. I will hate, if I have strength; if not, I shall love unwilling.