Ovid Quotes

The result justifies the deed
(Exitus acta probat)

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

Crede mihi, bene qui latuit bene vixit, et intra
Fortunam debet quisque manere suam.

Conscia mens recti famae mendacia risit

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

Barbarus hic ego sum, quia non intelligor illis.

(In this place I am a barbarian, because men do not understand me.)

God himself helps those who dare.

I grabbed a pile of dust, and holding it up, foolishly asked for as many birthdays as the grains of dust, I forgot to ask that they be years of youth.

Ten en cuenta que si regalas algo a tu amante antes de haberla poseído, es muy fácil que te quedes sin regalo y sin amante.

Thence are we a hardy generation, and able to endure fatigue, and we give proofs from what original we are sprung.

While I speak, time flies.

...et ignotas animum dimittit in artes, naturamque nouat. (to arts unknown he bends his wits, and alters nature.)

There is a certain pleasure in weeping

I flee who chases me and chase who flees me.

Ego pulveris hausti
ostendens cumulum, quot haberet corpora pulvis,
tot mihi natales contingere vana rogavi;
excidit, ut peterem iuvenes quoque protinus annos.