Ovid
A bitter drug oft brings relief.Collection: Drug
It is some alleviation to ills we cannot cure to speak of them.Collection: Speak
The least strength suffices to break what is bruised.Collection: Strength
The need has gone; the memorial thereof remains.Collection: Memorial
Habit had made the custom.Collection: Habit
What follows I flee; what flees I ever pursue.Collection: Progress
Calumny ever pursues the great, even as the winds hurl themselves on high places.Collection: Wind
The mind conscious of innocence despises false reports: but we are a set always ready to believe a scandal.Collection: Believe
Sickness seizes the body from bad ventilation.Collection: Body
Love's dominion, like a kings, admits of no partition.Collection: Love
If Jupiter hurled his thunderbolt as often as men sinned, he would soon be out of thunderbolts.Collection: Men
Indulgent gods, grant me to sin once with impunity. That is sufficient. Let a second offence bear its punishment.Collection: Punishment
It is expedient that there should be gods, and, since it is expedient, let us believe that gods exist.Collection: Art
Love conquers all things; let us own her dominion.Collection: Dominion
Love is the force that leaves you colorlessCollection: Love Is
A thousand ills require a thousand cures.Collection: Cures
Take the advice of light when you're looking at linens or jewels; Looking at faces or forms, take the advice of the day.Collection: Beauty
A wound will perhaps become tolerable with length of time; but wounds which are raw shudder at the touch of the hands.Collection: Hands
These are the evils which result from gossiping habits.Collection: Evil
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.Collection: Yield
Put faith in one who's had experience.Collection: Experience
That tuneful nymph, the babbling Echo.Collection: Echoes
I too am not powerless, and my weapons strike hard.Collection: Weapons
When the lightning strikes but one, not one only does it terrify.Collection: Lightning
If he should love deny him what he loves!Collection: Deny
A light breath fans the flame, a violent gust extinguishes it.Collection: Light
Seeking is all very well, but holding requires greater talent: Seeking involves some luck; now the demand is for skill.Collection: Skills
It's right to learn, even from the enemy.Collection: Enemy
All things human hang by a slender thread; and that which seemed to stand strong suddenly falls and sinks in ruins.Collection: Strong
Thy destiny is only that of man, but thy aspirations may be those of a god.Collection: Destiny
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.Collection: Self Love
Envy feeds on the living. It ceases when they are dead.Collection: Envy
Love will enter cloaked in friendship’s name.Collection: Real
Women can always be caught; that’s the first rule of the game.Collection: Firsts