Quotes from Ovid

Venus is kind to creatures as young as we;We know not what we do, and while we're youngWe have the right to live and love like gods.

If thou wishest to put an end to love, attend to business (love yields to employment); then thou wilt be safe. [Lat., Qui finem quaeris amoris, (Cedit amor rebus) res age; tutus eris.]

Ah me! love can not be cured by herbs. [Lat., Hei mihi! quod nullis amor est medicabilis herbis.]

Wine prepares the heart for love, unless you take too much.

Skill makes love unending.

Excessive love in loathing ever ends.

He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.

Ah me! love can not be cured by herbs.

She that weds well will wisely match her love, Nor be below her husband nor above.

The burden becomes light that is shared by love.

Fortune and love favour the brave. [Lat., Audentem Forsque Venusque juvant.]

It warms the blood, adds luster to the eyes, and wine and love have ever been allies.

By arts, sails, and oars, ships are rapidly moved; arts move the light chariot, and establish love. [Lat., Arte citae veloque rates remoque moventur; Arte levis currus, arte regendus Amor.]

We covet what is guarded; the very care invokes the thief. Few love what they may have.

The love of fame usually spurs on the mind. [Lat., Ingenio stimulos subdere fama solet.]

Truly now is the golden age; the highest honour comes by means of gold; by gold love is procured.

What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

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.

Love, and a cough, are not concealed.

Love is an affair of credulity.

I hate, and yet must love the thing I hate.

Love is too prone to trust. Would I could think My charges false and all too rashly made.

Most safely shall you tread the middle path.

A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.