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Giving calls for genius. — Ovid

The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting. — Ovid

Skill makes love unending. — Ovid

The art of medicine in the season lies:
Wine given in season oft will benefit,
Which out of season injures. — Ovid

Good-bye to the lies of the poets.
[Lat., Valeant mendacia vatum.] — Ovid

He lives well who lives retired, and keeps
His wants within the limits of his means. — Ovid

When there is plenty of wine, sorrow and worry take wing. — Ovid

You will go most safely by the middle way. — Ovid

The result proves the wisdom of the act. — Ovid

Pride is innate in beauty, and haughtiness is the companion of the fair. — Ovid

It is a pleasure appropriate to man, for him to save a fellow-man, and gratitude is acquired in no better way. — Ovid

The love of glory gives an immense stimulus. — Ovid

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

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another. — Ovid

Hastiness is the beginning of wrath, and its end repentance. — Ovid

I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement. — Ovid

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

I hate, and yet must love the thing I hate. — Ovid

Constant Penelope sends to thee, careless Ulysses.
Write not again, but come, sweet mate — Ovid

The love of fame usually spurs on the mind.
[Lat., Ingenio stimulos subdere fama solet.] — Ovid

First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, 'I believe,' three times. — Ovid

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal. — Ovid

Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair. — Ovid

Happy the man who ventures boldly to defend what he holds dear. — Ovid

There is no useful thing which may not be turned to an injurious purpose. — Ovid

A woman is a creature that's always shopping. — Ovid

I could not possibly count the gold-digging ruses of women, Not if I had ten mouths, not if I had ten tongues. — Ovid

The heavier crop is ever in others' fields. — Ovid

All things can corrupt when minds are prone to evil. — Ovid

for no god may undo what another god has done... — Ovid

Isn't the best defense always a good attack? — Ovid

Love is a believing creature. — Ovid

As many as the shells that are on the shore, so many are
the pains of love; the darts that wound are steeped in
much poison. — Ovid

To be silent is but a small virtue; but it is a serious fault to reveal secrets. — Ovid

the emperor had chewed off his balls and stuffed a one-way ticket to the Black Sea up his rectum [Marcus Corvinus explains what happened to Ovid] — David Wishart

Love is too prone to trust. Would I could think
My charges false and all too rashly made. — Ovid

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. — Ovid

We must improve our time; time goes with rapid foot. — Ovid

In our play we reveal what kind of people we are. — Ovid

While I speak, time flies. — Ovid

Wine stimulates the mind and makes it quick with heat; care flees and is dissolved in much drink. — Ovid

If you are not ready today, you will be even less so tomorrow. — Ovid

My intention is to tell of bodies changed into new forms. — Ovid

A safe pleasure is a tame pleasure. — Ovid

To live well is to live unnoticed."
"Bene qui latuit bene dixit. — Ovid

156. By faithful study of the nobler arts, our nature's softened, and more gentle grows. — Ovid

Women can always be caught; that's the first rule of the game. — Ovid

Those presents are the most acceptable which are enhanced by our regard for the donor. — Ovid

A woman is always buying something. — Ovid

By looking at squinting people you learn to squint. — Ovid

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

Majesty and love do not consort well together, nor do they dwell in the same place. — Ovid

Love is a naked child: do you think he has pockets for money? — Ovid

If you would conquer Love, he must be fought
At his first onslaught; sprinkle but a drop
Of water, the new-kindled flame expires. — Ovid

A burthen cheerfully borne becomes light — Ovid

Pedigree and ancestry and what we ourselves have not achieved, I scarcely recognize as our own. — Ovid

We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us. — Ovid

He who would not be idle, let him fall in love. — Ovid

A man is sorry to be honest for nothing. — Ovid

My bark, once struck by the fury of the storm, dreads again to approach the place of danger. — Ovid

When lizard-footed giants climbed the hills And with a hundred hands clawed at the sky. — Ovid

You will be safest in the middle. — Ovid

A field becomes exhausted by constant tillage. — Ovid

There is a god within us. — Ovid

She only is chaste, who is chaste where there is no danger of detection: she who does not, because she may not, does. — Ovid

I am above being injured by fortune, though she steals away much, more will remain with me. The blessing I now enjoy transcend fear. — Ovid

Love is a credulous thing. — Ovid

Pluck with quick hand the fruit that passes. — Ovid

Where crime is taught from early years, it becomes a part of nature. — Ovid

And besides, we lovers fear everything — Ovid

Diseases of the mind impair the bodily powers. — Ovid

There is no need of words; believe facts.
[Lat., Non opus est verbis, credite rebus.] — Ovid

Love is no assignment for cowards. — Ovid

Chaste is she whom no one has asked. — Ovid

I see and praise what is better, but follow what is worse. — Ovid

Fortune and love favor the brave. — Ovid

Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign. — Ovid

Stones are hollowed out by the constant dropping of water. — Ovid

Envy feeds on the living. It ceases when they are dead. — Ovid

Now I am ready to tell how bodies are changed
Into different bodies. — Ovid

You put aside the work that's done, and seek some work to do. — Ovid

He loved a lifeless thing and he was utterly and hopelessly wretched. — Ovid

Seeking is all very well, but holding requires greater talent: Seeking involves some luck; now the demand is for skill. — Ovid

The bold adventurer succeeds the best. — Ovid

Pleasure is sweetest when 'tis paid for by another's pain. — Ovid

Happy is he who dares courageously to defend what he loves. — Ovid

The rest of the crowd were friends of my fortune, not of me.
[Lat., Caetera fortunae, non mea, turba fuit.] — Ovid

in Ovid, difficulty is what wakes up the genius (ingenium mala saepe movent), — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Argus, you are fallen, and the light in all your lamps is utterly put out: one hundred eyes, one darkness all the same! — Ovid

Give way to your opponent; thus will you gain the crown of victory. — Ovid

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

Gold will buy the highest honours; and gold will purchase love. — Ovid

What ignorance there is in human minds. — Ovid

Small minds are captivated by trifles. — Ovid

By constant dripping, water hollows stone,
A signet-ring from use alone grows thin,
And the curved plowshare by soft earth is worn. — Ovid

Tis best to be silent in a bad cause. — Ovid

Suppressed pain chokes us; in our breasts
It surges, adding ever to its strength. — Ovid

Our native land charms us with inexpressible sweetness, and never, never allows us to forget that we belong to it. — Ovid

Gifts, believe me, captivate both men and Gods, Jupiter himself was won over and appeased by gifts. — Ovid

Leave war to others; 'tis Protesilaus' part of love. — Ovid