Ovid
The bold adventurer succeeds the best.Collection: Adventure
As the hawk is wont to pursue the trembling doves.Collection: Hawks
Work while your strength and years permit you; crooked age will by-and-by come upon you with silent foot.Collection: Years
When there is plenty of wine, sorrow and worry take wing.Collection: Wine
A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.Collection: Leadership
Let the man who does not wish to be idle, fall in love.Collection: Life
Keep thy hook always baited, for a fish lurks even in the most unlikely swim.Collection: Swim
The result proves the wisdom of the act.Collection: Results
Give way to your opponent; thus will you gain the crown of victory.Collection: Giving
Well has he lived who has lived well in obscurity.Collection: Solitude
The love of fame puts spurs to the mindCollection: Mind
The battle is over when the foe has fallen.Collection: Battle
As long as you are lucky, you will have many friends; if cloudy times appear, you will be alone. -Donec eris felix, multos numerabis amicos; tempora si fuerint nubila, solus erisCollection: Friendship
The more highminded a man is the more easily is his anger appeased.Collection: Men
Alas! how difficult it is not to betray one's guilt by one's looks.Collection: Betrayal
My bark, once struck by the fury of the storm, dreads again to approach the place of danger.Collection: Storm
Every lover is a soldier.Collection: Alaska
Man looks aloft, and with erected eyes Beholds his hereditary skies.Collection: Eye
We have ploughed the vast ocean in a fragile bark.Collection: Ocean
Grief is put to flight and assuaged by generous draughts.Collection: Grief
Take away leisure and Cupid's bow is brokenCollection: Broken
Have consideration for wounded feelings.Collection: Feelings
All human things hang on a slender thread, the strongest fall with a sudden crash.Collection: Love
Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.Collection: Blame
Imperceptibly the hours glide on, and beguile us as they pass.Collection: Hours
A boar is often held by a not-so-large dog.Collection: Dog
It is not easy to bear prosperity unruffled.Collection: Bears
Daring is not safe against daring men.Collection: Men
What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps with it alone, she lives.Collection: Sleep
What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless.Collection: Sad
It is a pleasure appropriate to man, for him to save a fellow-man, and gratitude is acquired in no better way.Collection: Gratitude
Riches, the incentives to evil, are dug out of the earth.Collection: Evil
Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves.Collection: Moving
It is but a small merit to observe silence, but it is a grave fault to speak of matters on which we should be silent.Collection: Silence
Lente, lente currite, noctis equi. Translation: Run slowly, slowly, horses of the night.Collection: Running
To give requires good sense.Collection: Inspiring
Use the occasion, for it passes swiftly.Collection: Opportunity
We two are to ourselves a crowd.Collection: Two
We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.Collection: Life Changing