Top 500 Ovid Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “Few people want the pleasures they are free to take.”

— Ovid

202. “I am compelled to speak of metamorphoses.”

— Ovid

203. “The gods have their own rules.”

— Ovid

204. “Pluck with quick hand the fruit that passes.”

— Ovid

205. “Things which of themselves avail nothing, when united become powerful.”

— Ovid

206. “There is a divinity within our breast.”

— Ovid

207. “What did Sappho of Lesbos teach but how to love women?”

— Ovid

208. “Pleasure is sweetest when ’tis paid for by another’s pain.”

— Ovid

209. “Ah me! love can not be cured by herbs.”

— Ovid

210. “Deadly poisons are concealed under sweet honey.”

— Ovid

211. “Dicere quae puduit, scribere jussit amor.”

— Ovid

212. “I see and approve better things, but follow worse.”

— Ovid

213. “Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses.”

— Ovid

214. “Love fed fat soon turns to boredom.”

— Ovid

215. “Eurydice, dying now a second time, uttered no complaint against her husband. What was there to complain of, but that she had been loved?”

— Ovid

216. “Envy assails the noblest: the winds howl around the highest peaks.”

— Ovid

217. “Sleep, rest of things, O pleasing Deity, Peace of the soul, which cares dost crucify, Weary bodies refresh and mollify.”

— Ovid

218. “Poetry comes fine-spun from a mind at peace.”

— Ovid

219. “All things human hang by a slender thread; and that which seemed to stand strong suddenly falls and sinks in ruins.”

— Ovid

220. “There is a certain pleasure in weeping; grief finds in tears both a satisfaction and a cure.”

— Ovid

221. “Resist beginnings: it is too late to employ medicine when the evil has grown strong by inveterate habit.”

— Ovid

222. “Let love steal in disguised as friendship.”

— Ovid

223. “I can live neither with you, nor without you.”

— Ovid

224. “When there is plenty of wine, sorrow and worry take wing.”

— Ovid

225. “Give way to your opponent; thus will you gain the crown of victory.”

— Ovid

226. “Winged time glides on insensibly, and deceive us; and there is nothing more fleeting than years.”

— Ovid

227. “As the hawk is wont to pursue the trembling doves.”

— Ovid

228. “Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.”

— Ovid

229. “I flee who chases me and chase who flees me.”

— Ovid

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

— Ovid

231. “It warms the blood, adds luster to the eyes, and wine and love have ever been allies.”

— Ovid

232. “Pride is innate in beauty, and haughtiness is the companion of the fair.”

— Ovid

233. “God gave man an upright countenance to survey the heavens, and to look upward to the stars.”

— Ovid

234. “Our native soil draws all of us, by I know not what sweetness, and never allows us to forget.”

— Ovid

235. “An injury may prove a blessing.”

— Ovid

236. “Passion persuades me one way, reason another. I see the better and approve it, but I follow the worse.”

— Ovid

237. “A boar is often held by a not-so-large dog.”

— Ovid

238. “Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.”

— Ovid

239. “An evil life is a kind of death.”

— Ovid

240. “What one beholds of a woman is the least part of her.”

— Ovid

241. “We have ploughed the vast ocean in a fragile bark.”

— Ovid

242. “Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.”

— Ovid

243. “Truly now is the golden age; the highest honour comes by means of gold; by gold love is procured.”

— Ovid

244. “If he should love deny him what he loves!”

— Ovid

245. “What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless.”

— Ovid

246. “He who has lived obscurely and quietly has lived well.”

— Ovid

247. “Tears at times have the weight of speech.”

— Ovid

248. “Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships, the poor man everywhere lies low.”

— Ovid

249. “Either attempt it not, or succeed.”

— Ovid

250. “There is no excellence uncoupled with difficulties.”

— Ovid