Ovid Quotes

Well doth he live who lives retired, and keeps
His wants within the limit of his means.

I prate of ancient poets' monstrous lies,
Ne'er seen or now or then by human eyes.

"Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.”
"Be patient and tough; one day this pain will be useful to you.

your fate is mortal: what you ask for isn’t.

Ants never head for an empty granary:
no friends gather round when your wealth is gone.

Someday this pain will be useful to you

And he sets his mind to unknown arts

All things change; nothing perishes.

Nomenque erit indelebile nostrum.

If you would be loved, be lovable

I flee who chases me and chase who flees me.

"Bene vixit, bene qui latuit."

(To live well is to live concealed.)

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

Their love was equal; on the hills they roamed together, and together they would go back to their cave; and this time too they went into the Lapith's palace side by side and side by side were fighting in the fray. A javelin (no knowing from whose hand) came from the left and wounded Cyllarus, landing below the place where the chest joins neck — slight wound, but when the point was pulled away, cold grew his damaged heart and cold his limbs. Hylonome embraced him as he died, caressed the wound and, putting lips to lips, she tried to stay his spirit as it fled. And when she saw him lifeless, she moaned words that in that uproar failed to reach my ears; and fell upon the spear that pierced her love, and, dying, held her husband in her arms.

A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn.