Top 15 Ovid Quotes

Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.

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

Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.

Perfer et obdura, dolor hic tibi proderit olim. (Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.)

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.

Fas est ab hoste doceri.
One should learn even from one's enemies.

"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.

Omnia mutantur, nihil interit (everything changes, nothing perishes).

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

Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.

Eurydice, dying now a second time, uttered no complaint against her husband. What was there to complain of, but that she had been loved?

Give me the waters of Lethe that numb the heart, if they exist, I will still not have the power to forget you.

I am dragged along by a strange new force. Desire and reason are pulling in different directions. I see the right way and approve it, but follow the wrong.

As wave is driven by wave
And each, pursued, pursues the wave ahead,
So time flies on and follows, flies, and follows,
Always, for ever and new. What was before
Is left behind; what never was is now;
And every passing moment is renewed.

We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.