Ovid Quotes

My mind leads me to speak now of forms changed into new bodies: O gods above, inspire this undertaking (which you’ve changed as well) and guide my poem in its epic sweep from the world’s beginning to the present day.

I am compelled to speak of metamorphoses

Quem põe ponto final numa paixão com o ódio, ou ainda ama, ou não consegue deixar de sofrer.

هبْني القدرة على أن أُبدع قواعد جديدة
[تُغيّر من أحكامِ طبيعتي [البشرية

The first thing to get in your head is that every single
Girl can be caught - and that you'll catch her if
You set your toils right. Birds will sooner fall dumb in
Springtime,
Cicadas in summer, or a hunting-dog
Turn his back on a hare, than a lover's bland inducements
Can fail with a woman, Even one you suppose
Reluctant will want it.

While I speak, time flies.

I intend to speak of metamorphoses.

The workmanship was better than the subject matter.

But love, resistless love, my soul invades, discretion this, affection that perswades. I see the right and I approve it too, condemn the wrong and yet the wrong pursue.

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

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,

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

My vessel is launched on the boundless main and my sails are spread to the wind ! In the whole of the world there is nothing that stays unchanged. All is in flux. Any shape that is formed is constantly shifting.
Time itself flows steadily by in perpetual motion. Think of a river: no river can ever arrest its current, nor can the fleeting hour. But as water is forced downstream
by the water behind it and presses no less on the water ahead, so time is in constant flight and pursuit, continually new. The present turns into the past and the future replaces the present; every moment that passes is new and eternally changing.

Time gliding by without our knowledge cheats us, and nothing can be swifter than the years.

Dunque suvvia, non confidare nell'aspetto che inganna; chiunque tu sia, stima qualcosa di superiore al corpo.