Ovid
Little things please little minds.Collection: Mind
We do not bear sweets; we are recruited by a bitter potion.Collection: Sweet
Though the power be wanting, yet the wish is praiseworthy.Collection: Power
There is no excellency without difficulty.Collection: Excellence
Women can always be caught; that's the first rule of the game.Collection: Women
We can learn even from our enemies.Collection: Enemy
Only begin, and you will become eloquent of yourself.Collection: Speech
Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery.Collection: Lying
Envy depreciates the genius of the great Homer.Collection: Envy
Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.Collection: Jupiter
Wherever I look there is nothing but the image of death.Collection: Death
It is hope which makes the shipwrecked sailor strike out with his arms in the midst of the sea, though no land is in sight.Collection: Sight
The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late.Collection: Time
Remove but the temptations of leisure, and the bow of Cupid will lose its effect.Collection: Temptation
Ere land and sea and the all-covering sky Were made, in the whole world the countenance Of nature was the same, all one, well named Chaos, a raw and undivided mass, Naught but a lifeless bulk, with warring seeds Of ill-joined elements compressed together.Collection: Nature
There is a divinity within our breast.Collection: Divinity
Opportunity is ever worth expecting; let your hood be ever hanging ready. The fish will be in the pool where you least imagine it to be.Collection: Opportunity
It is the poor man who'll ever count his flock.Collection: Money
Whilst you are prosperous you can number many friends; but when the storm comes you are left alone.Collection: Numbers
The mightiest rivers lose their force when split up into several streams.Collection: Rivers
All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.Collection: Change
Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.Collection: Patience
Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful cropCollection: Inspirational
At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.Collection: Wise
There is no excellence uncoupled with difficulties.Collection: Excellence
Make the workmanship surpass the materials.Collection: Quality
Nothing is stronger than habit.Collection: Inspirational
That's one of the greatest curses ever inflicted on the human race, memory.Collection: Memories
Anyone can be rich in promises.Collection: Promise
Make good use of your time, it flies fast.Collection: Use
Yield to him who opposes you; by yielding you conquer.Collection: Yield
You will be melancholy, if you are solitary.Collection: Melancholy
There is a God within us, and we glow when He stirs us.Collection: God Within Us
Passion persuades me one way, reason another. I see the better and approve it, but I follow the worse.Collection: Passion
Twice does he live who can enjoy the remembrance of the past.Collection: Past
Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.Collection: Inspirational
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.Collection: Stars
Occupy yourself, and you will be out of harm's way.Collection: Occupy Yourself
There is no useful thing which may not be turned to an injurious purpose.Collection: Purpose
I attempt an arduous task but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievementCollection: Accomplishment
Sleep, thou repose of all things; sleep, thou gentlest of the deities; thou peace of the mind, from which care flies; who doest soothe the hearts of men wearied with the toils of the day, and refittest them for labor.Collection: Heart
Thus all things altered. Nothing dies. And here and there the unbodied spirit flies.Collection: Death
Though the strength is lacking, yet the willingness is commendable.Collection: Lacking