Ovid Quotes

And besides, we lovers fear everything

Brass shines with constant usage, a beautiful dress needs wearing,
Leave a house empty, it rots.

My vessel is launched on the boundless main and my sails are spread to the wind ! In the whole of the world there is nothing that stays unchanged. All is in flux. Any shape that is formed is constantly shifting.
Time itself flows steadily by in perpetual motion. Think of a river: no river can ever arrest its current, nor can the fleeting hour. But as water is forced downstream
by the water behind it and presses no less on the water ahead, so time is in constant flight and pursuit, continually new. The present turns into the past and the future replaces the present; every moment that passes is new and eternally changing.

Forma bonum fragile est.

Sometimes tears carry the same weight as words.

I am the poet of the poor, because I was poor when I loved; since I could not give gifts, I gave words.

And now I have finished the work, which neither the wrath of Jove, nor fire, nor the sword, nor devouring age shall be able to destroy.

In our play we reveal what kind of people we are

While I speak, time flies.

Nostra sine auxilio fugiunt bona; carpite florem,
Qui, nisi carptus erit, turpiter ipse cadet.

Poetry comes fine spun from a mind at peace.

Young love is errant, but it needs to get around;
The time and practice make it strong and sound.
That bull you fear, you petted when it wasn't big;
What now you sleep beneath was once a twig.
That little stream, in gaining waters as it goes,
Grows stronger, till at last a river flows.

Candida pax homines, trux decet ira feras.

for no god may undo what another god has done...

Plenty has made me poor.