Ovid Quotes

Brass shines with constant usage, a beautiful dress needs wearing,Leave a house empty, it rots.

Fas est ab hoste doceri.One should learn even from one's enemies.

Barbarus hic ego sum, quia non intelligor illis.(In this place I am a barbarian, because men do not understand me.)

In an easy cause any man may be eloquent.

Nothing is more powerful than habit.

Sleep ... peace of the soul who put-test care to flight.

In the make-up of human beings, intelligence counts for more than our hands, and that is our true strength.

As wave is driven by wave And each, pursued, pursues the wave ahead, So time flies on and follows, flies, and follows, Always, for ever and new. What was before Is left behind; what never was is now; And every passing moment is renewed.

I got nervous at bulls and eagles,Trying to figure what shape Zeus might take f

Although the gods were in the distant skies,Pythagoras drew near them with his mind;what nature had denied to human sight,he saw with his intellect, his mental eye.When he, with reason and tenacious care,had probed all things, he taught-- to those who gatheredin silence and amazement-- what he'd learnedof the beginnings of the universe,of what caused things to happen, and what istheir nature: what god is, whence come the snows,what is the origin of lightning bolts--whether it is the thundering winds or Jovethat cleave the cloudbanks-- and what is the cause of earthquakes, and what laws control the courseof stars: in sum, whatever had been hid,Pythagoras revealed.

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

Every lover is a soldier.

All things change nothing is extinguished.