Ovid Quotes

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

The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.

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

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

Fortune and love favor the brave.

In strategy, it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things.

You may keep your beauty and your health, unless you destroy them yourself, or discourage them to stay with you, by using them ill.

Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.

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

Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.

If you want to be loved, be lovable.

Let others either envy or pity me; I will enjoy my own good fortune.

Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.

Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.

Nothing is stronger than habit.

Pleasure in moderation is the sweetest of all things.

Time, which sees all things, has found you out.

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.

Don’t ask for what you’ll wish you hadn’t got.

What is without periods of rest will not endure.

The mind alone is light; it alone is free. He whom the body drags to earthly brawls, perplexed by worldly strife.

The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.

The tale that is brief may not have much merit, but you can read it before it also has venom.

No rose is without its thorn.

To wish to be well is a part of becoming well.

Time flies never to be recalled.

More things grow in the garden than the gardener sows.

The beam of your own spirit is sufficient.

The greatest prayer is patience.

Tell the truth and love everyone.

Excellence in any art cannot be acquired without constant practice.

Armed with art, a race may never be truly vanquished.

Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.

Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.

To will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that will get one to that goal, and then hold to that action till the goal is reached. The key is action.

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.

There is only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything.

There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.

The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself.

Everybody’s business is nobody’s business, and nobody’s business is my business.

The things that we love tell us what we are.

The most beautiful things in life are often the most dangerous.

True beauty lies within, and if you can’t see it, then you understand nothing about beauty.

Love conquers all; let us surrender ourselves to Love.

The happiest part of a man’s life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.

Whatever comes, embrace it with open arms and a smile.

The whole of life is but a moment, so live it in the present.

Do not be afraid of taking a step into the unknown, for it is only there that true discovery lies.

Love is the strongest force in the world, and when used wisely, it can move mountains.