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Ovid Quotes About Love

What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps; with it alone, she lives.

Majesty and love do not consort well together, nor do they dwell in the same place.

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

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Love is a thing that is full of cares and fears.

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

Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.

He who says o'er much I love not is in love.

Ovid Quotes About Time

At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.

Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.

Time, motion and wine cause sleep.

Time is the devourer of all things.

Time is generally the best doctor.

Time, the devourer of all things.

More Quotes by Ovid

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

Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength.

I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement.

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.

Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.

Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason.

Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.

Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships; the poor man everywhere lies low.

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

What makes men indifferent to their wives is that they can see them when they please.

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

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

Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.

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

Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.

People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.

The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late.

The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool.

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

The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are.

There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.

How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.

Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts.

There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.

Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish.

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

First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, "I believe," three times.

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

A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.

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.

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

Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

The vulgar crowd values friends according to their usefulness.

It is the poor man who'll ever count his flock.

Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.

Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.

It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

A man is sorry to be honest for nothing.

Give way to your opponent; thus will you gain the crown of victory.

Alas! how difficult it is not to betray one's guilt by one's looks.

What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

All things can corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

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