Quotes by Ovid

The following are quotes from Ovid:

All things change, nothing perishes.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

By faithful study of the nobler arts, our nature's softened, and more gentle grows.

Dignity and love do not blend well, nor do they continue long together.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

It's useful that there should be Gods, so let's believe there are.

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

Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.

Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him, Easy-going enough once you acknowledge his power.

Love is a kind of warfare.

Love will enter cloaked in friendship's name.

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

Nothing is stronger than habit.

Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.

So I can't live either without you or with you.

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

Tears at times have all the weight of speech.

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

The result justifies the deed.

There is a god within us, and we have intercourse with heaven. That spirit comes from abodes on high.

Time the devourer of all things.

To be loved, be lovable.

We can learn even from our enemies.

We two are to ourselves a crowd.

What is harder than rock, or softer than water Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere.

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