Top 500 Ovid Quotes (2025 Update)
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401. “There is no useful thing which may not be turned to an injurious purpose.”

— Ovid

402. “Though the power be wanting, yet the wish is praiseworthy.”

— Ovid

403. “Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.”

— Ovid

404. “Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.”

— Ovid

405. “Every woman thinks herself attractive; even the plainest is satisfied with the charms she deems that she possesses.”

— Ovid

406. “To be silent is but a small virtue; but it is a serious fault to reveal secrets.”

— Ovid

407. “You put aside the work that’s done, and seek some work to do.”

— Ovid

408. “Phantasos: he takes illusory shapes of all inanimate things, earth, stones, rivers, trees.”

— Ovid

409. “Let ancient times delight other folk, I rejoice that I was not born till now.”

— Ovid

410. “A frail gift is beauty, which grows less as time draws on, and is devoured by its own years.”

— Ovid

411. “The laws allow arms to be taken against an armed foe.”

— Ovid

412. “Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.”

— Ovid

413. “The man who falls in love chill find plenty of occupation.”

— Ovid

414. “Bring a lawsuit against a man who can pay; the poor man’s acts are not worth the expense.”

— Ovid

415. “The time will come when you will hate the sight of a mirror.”

— Ovid

416. “This victory will be your I ruin.”

— Ovid

417. “A burthen cheerfully borne becomes light.”

— Ovid

418. “Love is a believing creature.”

— Ovid

419. “A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn.”

— Ovid

420. “Todas las grandes riquezas que posees se encuentran ahora reducidas al espacio que tu cuerpo.”

— Ovid

421. “Happy the man who can count his sufferings.”

— Ovid

422. “A light breath fans the flame, a violent gust extinguishes it.”

— Ovid

423. “Gain, acquired by many agents, soon accumulates.”

— Ovid

424. “Riches, the incentives to evil, are dug out of the earth.”

— Ovid

425. “I shall speak facts; but some will say I deal in fiction.”

— Ovid

426. “Only begin, and you will become eloquent of yourself.”

— Ovid

427. “Believe me, the gods spare the afflicted, and do not always oppress those who are unfortunate.”

— Ovid

428. “Thence are we a hardy generation, and able to endure fatigue, and we give proofs from what original we are sprung.”

— Ovid

429. “The mind conscious of innocence despises false reports: but we are a set always ready to believe a scandal.”

— Ovid

430. “It is prudence that first forsakes the wretched.”

— Ovid

431. “In an easy cause anyone can be eloquent; the slightest strength is enough to break what is already shattered.”

— Ovid

432. “The least strength suffices to break what is bruised.”

— Ovid

433. “He who says o’er much I love not is in love.”

— Ovid

434. “Our neighbour’s crop is always more fruitful and his cattle produce more milk than our own.”

— Ovid

435. “He whom all hate all wish to see destroyed.”

— Ovid

436. “That, which has not its alternation of rest, will not last long.”

— Ovid

437. “While I speak, time flies.”

— Ovid

438. “Siqua metu dempto casta est, ea denique casta est; quae, quia non liceat, non facit, illa facit.”

— Ovid

439. “In an easy cause any man may be eloquent.”

— Ovid

440. “Art lies by its own artifice.”

— Ovid

441. “Trivial losses often prove great gains.”

— Ovid

442. “Destroy our leisure and you break love’s bow.”

— Ovid

443. “The need has gone; the memorial thereof remains.”

— Ovid

444. “Perhaps you think that there are sacred groves and cities of the gods along the way, temples displaying all the gifts of wealth? Not so: your path is full of lurking perils as well as images of savage beasts. “And if you hold this course unswervingly, you’ll find the horns of Taurus in your way, 110 the Archer and the gaping jaws of Leo, and Scorpio, whose long and curving arms sweep one way, while the curving arms of Cancer sweep broadly in the opposite direction.”

— Ovid

445. “Time gliding by without our knowledge cheats us, and nothing can be swifter than the years.”

— Ovid

446. “Alas! How difficult it is to prevent the countenance from betraying guilt!”

— Ovid

447. “She that weds well will wisely match her love, Nor be below her husband nor above.”

— Ovid

448. “A bitter drug oft brings relief.”

— Ovid

449. “The love of fame puts spurs to the mind.”

— Ovid

450. “Thus earth of late so rude, So shapeless, man, till now unknown, became.”

— Ovid