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Born in 43 BC / Died in 17 / Italy / English

Quotes by Ovid

Love is a thing that is full of cares and fears.
Where belief is painful we are slow to believe.
Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.
The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.
The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late.
The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.
Take rest; a field that has rested gives a beautiful crop.
Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.
Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.
Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.
It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.
Envy aims very high.
People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.
Fortune and love favor the brave.
Tears at times have the weight of speech.
What makes men indifferent to their wives is that they can see them when they please.
Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.
Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
Most safely shall you tread the middle path.
Give way to your opponent; thus will you gain the crown of victory.
Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.
My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.
Love is full of anxious fears.
Majesty and love do not consort well together, nor do they dwell in the same place.
Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.