Top 500 Ovid Quotes (2026 Update)
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301. “Fair peace is becoming to men; fierce anger belongs to beasts.”

— Ovid

302. “Hate I shall, if I can; if I can’t, I shall love though not willing.”

— Ovid

303. “The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.”

— Ovid

304. “Love and dignity do not dwell together.”

— Ovid

305. “Simplicity, very rare in our age.”

— Ovid

306. “The more they drink the more they thirst.”

— Ovid

307. “Beauty, if you do not open your doors, takes age from lack of use.”

— Ovid

308. “Death is less bitter punishment than death’s delay.”

— Ovid

309. “Nations and empires flourish and decay, By turns command, and in their turns obey.”

— Ovid

310. “Dear to the heart of a girl is her own beauty and charm.”

— Ovid

311. “How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.”

— Ovid

312. “Envy feeds on the living, after death it rests, then the honor of a man protects him.”

— Ovid

313. “Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.”

— Ovid

314. “If it were in my power, I would be wiser; but a newly felt power carries me off in spite of myself; love leads me one way, my understanding another.”

— Ovid

315. “Love is an affair of credulity.”

— Ovid

316. “Spare the soul that feels a deadly wound.”

— Ovid

317. “Whatever charm thou hast, be charming.”

— Ovid

318. “Love that is fed by jealousy dies hard.”

— Ovid

319. “Nothing is more useful to man that those arts which have no utility.”

— Ovid

320. “A short absence is the safest.”

— Ovid

321. “A safe pleasure is a tame pleasure.”

— Ovid

322. “Whether they yield or refuse, it delights women to have been asked.”

— Ovid

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323. “That tuneful nymph, the babbling Echo.”

— Ovid

324. “A broken fortune is like a falling column; the lower it sinks, the greater weight it has to sustain.”

— Ovid

325. “Chastity, once lost, cannot be recalled; it goes only once.”

— Ovid

326. “Remove but the temptations of leisure, and the bow of Cupid will lose its effect.”

— Ovid

327. “A wound will perhaps become tolerable with length of time; but wounds which are raw shudder at the touch of the hands.”

— Ovid

328. “If you have a voice, sing; but if you have good arms, then go in for dancing.”

— Ovid

329. “Time spent in the cultivation of the fields passes very pleasantly.”

— Ovid

330. “To dismiss a guest is a more ungracious act than not to admit him at all.”

— Ovid

331. “The gift derives its value from the rank of the giver.”

— Ovid

332. “Today is truly the Golden Age: gold buys hornor, gold procures love.”

— Ovid

333. “Wherever I look there is nothing but the image of death.”

— Ovid

334. “A pleasing face is no small advantage.”

— Ovid

335. “The poet’s labors are a work of joy, and require peace of mind.”

— Ovid

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

— Ovid

337. “I too am not powerless, and my weapons strike hard.”

— Ovid

338. “Though the strength is lacking, yet the willingness is commendable.”

— Ovid

339. “Pure women are only those who have not been asked.”

— Ovid

340. “When the lightning strikes but one, not one only does it terrify.”

— Ovid

341. “We believe slowly when belief brings pain.”

— Ovid

342. “A thousand ills require a thousand cures.”

— Ovid

343. “Time, motion and wine cause sleep.”

— Ovid

344. “It is good to be taught even by an enemy.”

— Ovid

345. “Majesty and love do not well agree, nor do they live together.”

— Ovid

346. “Rest strengthens the body, the mind too is thus supported; but unremitting toil destroys both.”

— Ovid

347. “Art is most effective when concealed.”

— Ovid

348. “An animal more like the gods than these, more intellectually capable and able to control the other beasts, had not as yet appeared: now man was born, either.”

— Ovid

349. “What ignorance there is in human minds.”

— Ovid

350. “An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.”

— Ovid