Top 500 Ovid Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “God himself helps those who dare.”

— Ovid

52. “He is a foolish swimmer who swims against the stream, when he might take the current sideways.”

— Ovid

53. “Envy, the meanest of vices, creeps on the ground like a serpent.”

— Ovid

54. “You who seek an end of love, love yields to business: be busy, and you will be safe.”

— Ovid

55. “Lente, lente currite, noctis equi. Translation: Run slowly, slowly, horses of the night.”

— Ovid

56. “As long as you are lucky, you will have many friends; if cloudy times appear, you will be alone. -Donec eris felix, multos numerabis amicos; tempora si fuerint nubila, solus eris.”

— Ovid

57. “Who would have known of Hector, if Troy had been happy? The road to valor is built by adversity.”

— Ovid

58. “The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.”

— Ovid

59. “That’s one of the greatest curses ever inflicted on the human race, memory.”

— Ovid

60. “What is without periods of rest will not endure.”

— Ovid

61. “There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.”

— Ovid

62. “Love, and a cough, are not concealed.”

— Ovid

63. “It is the mind that makes the man, and our vigour is in our immortal soul.”

— Ovid

64. “It’s right to learn, even from the enemy.”

— Ovid

65. “Time is the devourer of all things.”

— Ovid

66. “Virtue and vice, evil and good, are siblings, or next-door neighbors, Easy to make mistakes, hard to tell them apart.”

— Ovid

67. “Thus I am not able to exist either with you or without you; and I seem not to know my own wishes.”

— Ovid

68. “I am dragged along by a strange new force. Desire and reason are pulling in different directions. I see the right way and approve it, but follow the wrong.”

— Ovid

69. “A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man’s brow.”

— Ovid

70. “Men should not care too much for good looks; neglect is becoming.”

— Ovid

71. “Use the occasion, for it passes swiftly.”

— Ovid

72. “It is a kingly act to help the fallen.”

— Ovid

73. “Sickness seizes the body from bad ventilation.”

— Ovid

74. “Isn’t the best defense always a good attack?”

— Ovid

75. “If you count the sunny and the cloudy days of the whole year, you will find that the sunshine predominates.”

— Ovid

76. “Presents, believe me, seduce both men and gods.”

— Ovid

77. “Only the mind cannot be sent into exile.”

— Ovid

78. “Love will enter cloaked in friendship’s name.”

— Ovid

79. “Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.”

— Ovid

80. “The brave find a home in every land.”

— Ovid

81. “It is some relief to weep; grief is satisfied and carried off by tears.”

— Ovid

82. “He, who is not prepared today, will be less so tomorrow.”

— Ovid

83. “Love conquers all things; let us own her dominion.”

— Ovid

84. “There is nothing constant in the universe. All ebb and flow, and every shape that’s born, bears in its womb the seeds of change.”

— Ovid

85. “Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.”

— Ovid

86. “All other creatures look down toward the earth, but man was given a face so that might turn his eyes toward the stars and his gaze upon the sky.”

— Ovid

87. “The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.”

— Ovid

88. “All human things hang on a slender thread, the strongest fall with a sudden crash.”

— Ovid

89. “Give me the waters of Lethe that numb the heart, if they exist, I will still not have the power to forget you.”

— Ovid

90. “I am the poet of the poor, because I was poor when I loved; since I could not give gifts, I gave words.”

— Ovid

91. “Burdens become light when cheerfully borne.”

— Ovid

92. “Let the man who does not wish to be idle, fall in love.”

— Ovid

93. “In our play we reveal what kind of people we are.”

— Ovid

94. “The workmanship was better than the subject matter.”

— Ovid

95. “Excessive love in loathing ever ends.”

— Ovid

96. “Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.”

— Ovid

97. “Women’s words are as light as the doomed leaves whirling in autumn, Easily swept by the wind, easily drowned by the wave.”

— Ovid

98. “Venus favors the bold.”

— Ovid

99. “By looking at squinting people you learn to squint.”

— Ovid

100. “When I was from Cupid’s passions free, my Muse was mute and wrote no elegy.”

— Ovid