Ovid Quotes

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

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

Agamemnon escaped with his life From land battles and sea storms, then fell to his wife.

Sometimes tears carry the same weight as words.

And it is a smaller thing to suffer the punishment than to have deserved it.

amor crevit tempore

Est deus in nobis; agitante calescimus illo:
impetus hic sacrae semina mentis habet.

He gazes at her lips, and knows that gazing Is not enough. He marvels at her fingers, Her hands, her wrists, her arms, bare to the shoulder, And what he does not see he thinks is better. But still she flees him, swifter than the wind,

Candida pax homines, trux decet ira feras.

Argus, you are fallen, and the light in all your lamps is utterly put out: one hundred eyes, one darkness all the same!

Causa latet, vis est notissima

Let your hook be always cast in the pond. when you least expect it, there will be fish.

Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

Right it is to be taught even by the enemy.

All right, boy, skewer me. I've dropped my defenses,
I'm an easy victim. Why, by now
Your arrows practically know their own way to the target
And feel less at home in their quiver than in me.