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Ovid Inspirational Quotes (431)

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Fair peace becomes men ferocious anger belongs to beasts. [Lat., Candida pax homines, trux decet ira feras.]
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Burdens become light when cheerfully borne.
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Chaste is she whom no one has asked.
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As the hawk is wont to pursue the trembling doves.
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Take this at least, this last advice, my son: Keep a stiff rein, and move but gently on: The coursers of themselves will run too fast, Your art must be to moderate their haste.
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With wavering steps does fickle fortune stray, Nowhere she finds a firm and fixed abode But now all smiles, and now again all frowns, She's constant only in inconstancy.
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Time was when genius was more precious than gold, but now to have nothing is monstrous barbarism.
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Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.
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We do not bear sweets we are recruited by a bitter potion.
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There is a God within us, and we glow when He stirs us.
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Anything cracked will shatter at a touch.
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When you have set yourself a task finish it.
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A mind conscious of right laughs at the falsehoods of rumour. [Lat., Conscia mens recti famae mendacia risit.]
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There is nothing constant in the universe. All ebb and flow, and every shape that's born, bears in its womb the seeds of change.
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There is a good deal in a man's mode of eating.
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In your judgment virtue requires no reward, and is to be sought for itself, unaccompanied by external benefits. [Lat., Judice te mercede caret, per seque petenda est Externis virtus incomitata bonis.]
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Beauty is a frail good.
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Deadly poisons are concealed under sweet honey.
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Eurydice, dying now a second time, uttered no complaint against her husband. What was there to complain of, but that she had been loved?
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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.
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Love's dominion, like a kings, admits of no partition.
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The ungovernable passion for wealth. [Lat., Opum furiata cupido.]
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Tempus edax rerum. Time that devours all things.
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Thy destiny is only that of man, but thy aspirations may be those of a god.
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