Ovid Quotes

amor crevit tempore

The result justifies the deed
(Exitus acta probat)

We need to accept the strangeness of things as they are.

Their love was equal; on the hills they roamed together, and together they would go back to their cave; and this time too they went into the Lapith's palace side by side and side by side were fighting in the fray. A javelin (no knowing from whose hand) came from the left and wounded Cyllarus, landing below the place where the chest joins neck — slight wound, but when the point was pulled away, cold grew his damaged heart and cold his limbs. Hylonome embraced him as he died, caressed the wound and, putting lips to lips, she tried to stay his spirit as it fled. And when she saw him lifeless, she moaned words that in that uproar failed to reach my ears; and fell upon the spear that pierced her love, and, dying, held her husband in her arms.

Not knowing what he sees, he adores the sight; That false face fools and fuels his delight

And he sets his mind to unknown arts

What did Sappho of Lesbos teach but how to love women?

"To live well is to live unnoticed."
"Bene qui latuit bene dixit."

Read what is here. How could reading a letter harm you?

There might even be something in it that pleases you.

My secrets are carried, by these letters, over land and sea:

even enemies read letters received from their enemies.

who can carry
The incineration of a Universe?

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

His eyes that swam in death's dark night looked round
For Athis, and he lay down by his side,
Solaced among the shades to share his death.

Dicere quae puduit, scribere jussit amor

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

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