Quotes by Ovid

“What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps with it alone, she lives.”

“Fair peace becomes men ferocious anger belongs to beasts.”

“Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.”

“Art lies by its own artifice.”

“Beauty is a fragile gift.”

“Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.”

“Time is generally the best doctor.”

“The bold adventurer succeeds the best.”

“Habits change into character.”

“The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool.”

“Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.”

“A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.”

“An evil life is a kind of death.”

“Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.”

“Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.”

“Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.”

“Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.”

“Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.”

“Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.”

“My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.”

“If you want to be loved, be lovable.”

“Fortune and love favor the brave.”

“All love is vanquished by a succeeding love.”

“Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships the poor man everywhere lies low.”

“First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, 'I believe,' three times.”

“Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.”

“Bear patiently with a rival.”

“Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength.”

“Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.”

“Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.”

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