Ovid Ovid Quotes
39 Ovid Ovid quotes:
"People are slow to believe that, which if believed would work them harm."
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"Who would have known of Hector, if Troy had been happy? The road to valor is built by adversity"
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"Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it."
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"Forbear to lay the guilt of a few on the many."
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"What makes men indifferent to their wives is that they can see them when they please."
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"Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign."
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"Well has he lived who has lived well in obscurity."
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"Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality."
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"As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity."
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"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."
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"I am above being injured by fortune, though she steals away much, more will remain with me. The blessing I now enjoy transcend fear."
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"A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace."
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"If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal."
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"Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength."
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"Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all."
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"There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it."
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"Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves."
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"Love is a kind of warfare."
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"Envy aims very high."
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"Time is generally the best doctor."
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