Top 500 Ovid Quotes (2025 Update)
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451. “Where crime is taught from early years, it becomes a part of nature.”

— Ovid

452. “He who has it in his power to commit sin, is less inclined to do so. The very idea of being able, weakens the desire.”

— Ovid

453. “The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late.”

— Ovid

454. “The judge’s duty is to inquire about the time, as well as the facts.”

— Ovid

455. “Grief brims itself and flows away in tears.”

— Ovid

456. “She only is chaste, who is chaste where there is no danger of detection: she who does not, because she may not, does.”

— Ovid

457. “Forbear to lay the guilt of a few on the many.”

— Ovid

458. “It is no less a feat to keep what you have, than to increase it. In one there is chance, the other will be a work of art.”

— Ovid

459. “What makes men indifferent to their wives is that they can see them when they please.”

— Ovid

460. “Had I not sinned what would there be for you to pardon. My fate has given you the opportunity for mercy.”

— Ovid

461. “It is some alleviation to ills we cannot cure to speak of them.”

— Ovid

462. “We covet what is guarded; the very care invokes the thief. Few love what they may have.”

— Ovid

463. “Love is a child and naked; he has years that know no meanness, and he has no clothes, so that he is open in his ways.”

— Ovid

464. “No thanks attach to a kindness long deferred.”

— Ovid

465. “The act is judged of by the event.”

— Ovid

466. “Birth and ancestry, and that which we have not ourselves achieved, we can scarcely call our own.”

— Ovid

467. “What is reason now was passion heretofore.”

— Ovid

468. “What is more useful than fire? Yet if any one prepares to burn a house, it is with fire that he arms his daring hands.”

— Ovid

469. “According to the state of a man’s conscience, so do hope and fear on account of his deeds arise in his mind.”

— Ovid

470. “Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.”

— Ovid

471. “Few love what they may have.”

— Ovid

472. “These are the evils which result from gossiping habits.”

— Ovid

473. “Daring is not safe against daring men.”

— Ovid

474. “Calumny ever pursues the great, even as the winds hurl themselves on high places.”

— Ovid

475. “What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps with it alone, she lives.”

— Ovid

476. “To feel our ills is one thing, but to cure them is another.”

— Ovid

477. “A field becomes exhausted by constant tillage.”

— Ovid

478. “Agamemnon escaped with his life From land battles and sea storms, then fell to his wife.”

— Ovid

479. “I intend to speak of metamorphoses.”

— Ovid

480. “Not knowing what he sees, he adores the sight; That false face fools and fuels his delight.”

— Ovid

481. “As the mind of each man is conscious of good or evil, so does he conceive within his breast hope or fear, according to his actions.”

— Ovid

482. “You will be melancholy, if you are solitary.”

— Ovid

483. “When the heart is sick it cannot bear the slightest annoyance.”

— Ovid

484. “Ah, wretched me! that love is not to be cured by any herbs; and that those arts which afford relief to all, are of no avail for their master.”

— Ovid

485. “A lover fears all that he believes.”

— Ovid

486. “Idleness ruins the constitution.”

— Ovid

487. “If God be my friend, I cannot be wretched.”

— Ovid

488. “No man provokes me with impunity.”

— Ovid

489. “That pleasure which can be safely indulged in is the least inviting.”

— Ovid

490. “He loved a lifeless thing and he was utterly and hopelessly wretched.”

— Ovid

491. “Peace filled the world – until some futile brain Envied the lions’ diet and gulped down A feast of flesh to fill his greedy guts.”

— Ovid

492. “Envy depreciates the genius of the great Homer.”

— Ovid

493. “We must improve our time; time goes with rapid foot.”

— Ovid

494. “To have properly studied the liberal sciences gives a polish to our manners, and removes all awkwardness.”

— Ovid

495. “While I am speaking the opportunity is lost.”

— Ovid

496. “Ars est celaree artem.”

— Ovid

497. “Lesbia quid docuit Sappho nisi amare puellas?”

— Ovid

498. “When lizard-footed giants climbed the hills And with a hundred hands clawed at the sky.”

— Ovid

499. “In all creation nothing endures, all is in endless flux, each wandering shape a pilgrim passing by.”

— Ovid

500. “And now, as she died for the second time, she never complained that her husband had failed her – what could she complain of, except that he’d loved her?”

— Ovid