Ovid
Every woman thinks herself attractive; even the plainest is satisfied with the charms she deems that she possesses.Collection: Women
Everything changes, nothing is lost.Collection: Things Change
Love is a believing creature.Collection: Love
Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.Collection: Friendship
Those presents are the most acceptable which are enhanced by our regard for the donor.Collection: Donors
Although the power is lacking, the will is commendable.Collection: Latin
The spirits run riot in youth.Collection: Running
The gift derives its value from the rank of the giver.Collection: Generosity
Art is most effective when concealed.Collection: Art
If the art is concealed, it succeeds.Collection: Art
From high Meonia's rocky shores I came, Of poor decsent, Acoetes is my name, My sire was measly born: no oxen ploughed, His fruitful fields, nor in his pastures lowed, His whole estate within the waters lay' With lines and hooks he caught the finny prey; His art was all his livelehood, which he Thus with his dying lips bequeathed to me: In streams, my boy, and rivers take thy chance; There swims', said he, Thy whole inheritance.Collection: Art
A gift in time of need is most acceptable.Collection: Needs
Often they benefit who suffer wrong.Collection: Suffering
Believe me, the gods spare the afflicted, and do not always oppress those who are unfortunate.Collection: Believe
Gain, acquired by many agents, soon accumulates.Collection: Agents
Tis you, alone, can save, or give my doom.Collection: Giving
Birth and ancestry, and that which we have not ourselves achieved, we can scarcely call our own.Collection: Ancestry
Art lies by its own artifice.Collection: Art
What is reason now was passion heretofore.Collection: Passion
Anger assists hands however weak.Collection: Anger
Wine stimulates the mind and makes it quick with heat; care flees and is dissolved in much drink.Collection: Wine
There is no such thing as pure, unalloyed pleasure; some bitter ever mingles with the sweet.Collection: Sweet
Nothing in the entire universe ever perishes, believe me, but things vary, and adopt a new form. The phrase being born is used for beginning to be something different from what one was before, while dying means ceasing to be the same. Though this thing may pass into that, and that into this, yet the sums of things remains unchanged.Collection: Believe
Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.Collection: Marriage
Love is born of idleness and, once born, by idleness is fostered.Collection: Love Is
Treat a thousand dispositions in a thousand ways.Collection: Way
Mad desire, when it has the most, longs for moreCollection: Mad
Stones are hollowed out by the constant dropping of water.Collection: Water
The wounded gladiator forswears all fighting, but soon forgetting his former wound resumes his arms.Collection: Fighting
To feel our ills is one thing, but to cure them is another.Collection: Cures
The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.Collection: Prayer
The poet's labors are a work of joy, and require peace of mind.Collection: Joy
An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.Collection: Fear