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Quotes by Ovid

  • Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be fish.
  • All things change, nothing perishes.
  • Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him, Easy-going enough once you acknowledge his power.
  • It's useful that there should be Gods, so let's believe there are.
  • Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.
  • Love is a kind of warfare.
  • There is a god within us, and we have intercourse with heaven. That spirit comes from abodes on high.
  • What is harder than rock, or softer than water Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere.
  • My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.
  • All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.
  • Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.
  • Take rest a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.
  • Love will enter cloaked in friendship's name.
  • If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.
  • Dignity and love do not blend well, nor do they continue long together.
  • The cause is hidden. The effect is visible to all.
  • By faithful study of the nobler arts, our nature's softened, and more gentle grows.
  • Tears at times have all the weight of speech.
  • We two are to ourselves a crowd.
  • Time the devourer of all things.
  • So I can't live either without you or with you.
  • We can learn even from our enemies.
  • To be loved, be lovable.
  • Nothing is stronger than habit.
  • The result justifies the deed.