Quote

With patience bear what pains you have deserved, Grieve, if you will, over what's unmerited.

Ovid

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Ovid
Author
Elegist
Mythographer
Poet
Writer
Publius Ovidius Naso
P. Ovidius Naso
Pains
Grieving
Punishment
Patience
Bear
Bears
Unmerited
Pain
Grieve
Deserved

More quotes by Ovid

Image
Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses.
Ovid
Image
There is a good deal in a man's mode of eating.
Ovid
Image
Pursuits become habits.
Ovid
Image
We hate the hawk because he ever lives in battle.
Ovid
Image
The brave find a home in every land.
Ovid
Image
Everyone is desirous of his own pursuits, and loves To spend his time in his accustomed art.
Ovid
Image
Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.
Ovid
Image
The sick mind can not bear anything harsh. [Lat., Mensque pati durum sustinet aegra nihil.]
Ovid
Image
Make the workmanship surpass the materials.
Ovid
Image
When a rose dies, a thorn is left behind.
Ovid
Image
We two [Deucalion and Pyrrha, after the deluge] form a multitude. [Lat., Nos duo turba sumus.]
Ovid
Image
Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.
Ovid
Image
Chaste is she whom no one has asked.
Ovid
Image
Nothing is swifter than our years.
Ovid
Image
We covet what is guarded the very care invokes the thief. Few love what they may have.
Ovid
Image
As the mind of each man is conscious of good or evil, so does he conceive within his breast hope or fear, according to his actions.
Ovid
Image
Lovers remember everything. [Lat., Meminerunt omnia amantes.]
Ovid
Image
There is some joy in weeping. For our tears Fill up the cup, then wash our pain away.
Ovid
Image
Deadly poisons are concealed under sweet honey.
Ovid
Image
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.
Ovid