Quote

Money nowadays is money money brings office money gains friends everywhere the poor man is down. [Lat., In pretio pretium nunc est dat census honores, Census amicitias pauper ubique jacet.]

Ovid

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Ovid
Author
Elegist
Mythographer
Poet
Writer
Publius Ovidius Naso
P. Ovidius Naso
Friends
Nunc
Poor
Pauper
Money
Census
Men
Nowadays
Brings
Gains
Everywhere
Office

More quotes by Ovid

Image
The end doesn't justify the means.
Ovid
Image
Love is a kind of military service
Ovid
Image
A pious fraud. [Lat., Pia fraus.]
Ovid
Image
That load becomes light which is cheerfully borne.
Ovid
Image
Tears are at times as eloquent as words. [Weeping hath a voice.]
Ovid
Image
I flee who chases me and chase who flees me.
Ovid
Image
Knowest thou not that kings have long hands? [Lat., An nescis longos regibus esse manus?]
Ovid
Image
Beauty is heaven's gift, and how few can boast of beauty.
Ovid
Image
We two are to ourselves a crowd.
Ovid
Image
Struggling over my fickle heart, love draws it now this way, and now hate that--but love, I think, is winning. I will hate, if I have strength if not, I shall love unwilling.
Ovid
Image
Little things please little minds.
Ovid
Image
Where crime is taught from early years, it becomes a part of nature.
Ovid
Image
Judgement of beauty can err, what with the wine and the dark.
Ovid
Image
Thanks are justly due for things got without purchase. [Lat., Gratia pro rebus merito debetur inemtis.]
Ovid
Image
What is now an act of reason, was but blind impulse.
Ovid
Image
Let those who have deserved their punishment, bear it patiently. [Lat., Aequo animo poenam, qui meruere, ferant.]
Ovid
Image
There is a certain pleasure in weeping grief finds in tears both a satisfaction and a cure.
Ovid
Image
There are as many characters in men As there are shapes in nature.
Ovid
Image
He is a foolish swimmer who swims against the stream, when he might take the current sideways.
Ovid
Image
Every lover is a soldier.
Ovid