Quotes By Ovid

The cause is hidden; the effect is visible to all.

Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.

Ah me! Love can not be cured by herbs.

Time, the devourer of all things.

Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.

The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.

A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.

Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.

Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.

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

Majesty and love do not consort well together, nor do they dwell in the same place.

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

The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.

The vulgar crowd values friends according to their usefulness.

I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement.

Love is full of anxious fears.

Time is the devourer of all things.

Love is a thing that is full of cares and fears.

There is a god within us.

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

A man is sorry to be honest for nothing.

Venus favors the bold.

Bear patiently with a rival.

People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.

The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.

Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.

Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be fish.

An evil life is a kind of death.

What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late.