Ovid Quotes

Tibi dextera bello
utilis: ingenium est, quod eget moderamine nostro;
tu vires sine mente geris, mihi cura futuri;
tu pugnare potes, pugnandi tempora mecum
eligit Atrides; tu tantum corpore prodes,
nos animo; quantoque ratem qui temperat, anteit
remigis officium, quanto dux milite maior,
tantum ego te supero; nec non in corpore nostro
pectora sunt potiora manu: vigor omnis in illis.

Principiis obsta; sero medicina paratur
Cum mala per longas convaluere moras.

Her clear conscience mocked rumour’s mendacity, But we are a mob prone to credit sin.

I flee who chases me and chase who flees me.

Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.

Every lover is a soldier.

Nocte latent mendae, vitioque ignoscitur omni,
Horaque formosam quamlibet illa facit.

It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are.

It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe that there are.

The rest night knows, and we, and the tower that sees, and the light that showed me a path through the sea.

We all conceal
A god within us, we all deal
With heaven direct, from whose high places we derive
The inspiration by which we live.

They come to see; they come that they themselves may be seen.

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.

Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.

The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.