Ovid Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Ovid
Ovid Famous Quotes & Sayings
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The art of medicine in the season lies:
Wine given in season oft will benefit,
Which out of season injures.
Wine given in season oft will benefit,
Which out of season injures.
Devouring Time and envious Age, all things yield to you; and with lingering death you destroy, step by step, with venomed tooth whatever you attack.
Man's last day must ever be awaited and none to be
counted happy until his death, until his last funeral rites
are paid.
counted happy until his death, until his last funeral rites
are paid.
Those gifts are ever the most acceptable which the giver makes precious.
[Lat., Acceptissima semper munera sunt auctor quae pretiosa facit.]
[Lat., Acceptissima semper munera sunt auctor quae pretiosa facit.]
First try all other means, but if the wound
Heal not, then use the knife, lest to the clean
From the diseased the canker spread.
Heal not, then use the knife, lest to the clean
From the diseased the canker spread.
105. I congratulate myself on not having arrived into this world until the present time. This age suits my taste.
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.
They come to see, they come that they themselves may be seen.
[Lat., Spectatum veniunt, veniunt spectentur ut ipse.]
[Lat., Spectatum veniunt, veniunt spectentur ut ipse.]
What is harder than stone?
What more soft than water?
Nevertheless hard though the rock be, it is hollowed by the wave.
What more soft than water?
Nevertheless hard though the rock be, it is hollowed by the wave.
What is hid is unknown: for what is unknown there is no desire.
[Lat., Quod latet ignotum est; ignoti nulla cupido.]
[Lat., Quod latet ignotum est; ignoti nulla cupido.]
A mind conscious of right laughs at the falsehoods of rumour.
[Lat., Conscia mens recti famae mendacia risit.]
[Lat., Conscia mens recti famae mendacia risit.]
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.
Nothing aids which may not also injure us.
Fire serves us well, but he who plots to burn
His neighbor's roof arms his hands with fire.
Fire serves us well, but he who plots to burn
His neighbor's roof arms his hands with fire.
So long as you are secure you will count many friends; if your life becomes clouded you will be alone.
The glow of inspiration warms us; this holy rapture springs from the seeds of the Divine mind sown in man.