Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.
– Ovid
A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
– Ovid
A man is sorry to be honest for nothing.
– Ovid
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.
– Ovid
A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.
– Ovid
Although they posses enough, and more than enough still they yearn for more.
– Ovid
An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.
– Ovid
An evil life is a kind of death.
– Ovid
At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.
– Ovid
Bear patiently with a rival.
– Ovid
Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.
– Ovid
Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.
– Ovid
Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery.
– Ovid
Daring is not safe against daring men.
– Ovid
Either do not attempt at all, or go through with it.
– Ovid
Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.
– Ovid
Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.
– Ovid
Envy aims very high.
– Ovid
Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.
– Ovid
Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned.
– Ovid
Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.
– Ovid
Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts.
– Ovid
First appearance deceives many.
– Ovid
First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, I believe, three times.
– Ovid
Fortune and love favor the brave.
– Ovid
Frankly, I don't want to see a rapid upturn. I want it to hold until some of these idiotic competitors go bust.
– Ovid
Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.
– Ovid
How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.
– Ovid
I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement.
– Ovid
If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.
– Ovid
If you want to be loved, be lovable.
– Ovid
In an easy matter. Anybody can be eloquent.
– Ovid
In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are.
– Ovid
It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.
– Ovid
It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are.
– Ovid
Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.
– Ovid
Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.
– Ovid
Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.
– Ovid
Love is full of anxious fears.
– Ovid
Majesty and love do not consort well together, nor do they dwell in the same place.
– Ovid
Make the workmanship surpass the materials.
– Ovid
Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.
– Ovid
Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.
– Ovid
Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
– Ovid
Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.
– Ovid
My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.
– Ovid
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.
– Ovid
Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.
– Ovid
People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.
– Ovid
Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength.
– Ovid
The burden which is well borne becomes light.
– Ovid
The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late.
– Ovid
The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool.
– Ovid
The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.
– Ovid
The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.
– Ovid
The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.
– Ovid
There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.
– Ovid
There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
– Ovid
This also - that I live, I consider a gift of God.
– Ovid
Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves.
– Ovid
Time is generally the best doctor.
– Ovid
Time is the devourer of all things.
– Ovid
Time, motion and wine cause sleep.
– Ovid
Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason.
– Ovid
Venus favors the bold.
– Ovid
We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.
– Ovid
What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless.
– Ovid
What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.
– Ovid
What is without periods of rest will not endure.
– Ovid
What makes men indifferent to their wives is that they can see them when they please.
– Ovid
Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.
– Ovid
Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.
– Ovid
Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.
– Ovid
You can learn from anyone even your enemy.
– Ovid
You will go most safely in the middle.
– Ovid
All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.
– Ovid
By faithful study of the nobler arts, our nature's softened, and more gentle grows.
– Ovid
Dignity and love do not blend well, nor do they continue long together.
– Ovid
If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.
– Ovid
Love will enter cloaked in friendship's name.
– Ovid
Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.
– Ovid
Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.
– Ovid
Tears at times have all the weight of speech.
– Ovid
The cause is hidden. The effect is visible to all.
– Ovid
We two are to ourselves a crowd.
– Ovid
So I can't live either without you or with you.
– Ovid
Nothing is stronger than habit.
– Ovid
The result justifies the deed. (Exitus acta probat)
– Ovid
We can learn even from our enemies.
– Ovid
What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps with it alone, she lives.
– Ovid
Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.
– Ovid
The bold adventurer succeeds the best.
– Ovid
Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships the poor man everywhere lies low.
– Ovid
Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.
– Ovid
Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.
– Ovid
Habits change into character.
– Ovid
Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.
– Ovid
Beauty is a fragile gift.
– Ovid
Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.
