Ovid Quotes About Life

We have collected for you the TOP of Ovid's best quotes about Life! Here are collected all the quotes about Life starting from the birthday of the Poet – March 20, 43 BC! We hope you will be inspired to new achievements with our constantly updated collection of quotes. At the moment, this page contains 2 sayings of Ovid about Life. We will be happy if you share our collection of quotes with your friends on social networks!
  • Thus I am not able to exist either with you or without you; and I seem not to know my own wishes.

  • Majesty and love do not well agree, nor do they live together.

  • Let the man who does not wish to be idle, fall in love.

  • This also, that I live, I consider a gift of God.

  • It is not safe to despise what Love commands. He reigns supreme, and rules the mighty gods.

  • Love is a thing full of anxious fears.

  • The glow of inspiration warms us; it is a holy rapture.

  • If you want to be loved, be lovable.

  • Love is a credulous thing.

    Ovid (1852). “The Heroides: Or Epistles of the Heroines, The Amours, Art of Love, Remedy of Love and Minor Works of Ovid”, p.52
  • Love that is fed by jealousy dies hard.

    Ovid (1932). “The Love Books of Ovid”, p.216, Biblo & Tannen Publishers
  • What is harder than rock, or softer than water? Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere.

  • If you give up your quiet life, the bow of Cupid will lose its power.

  • Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships, the poor man everywhere lies low.

  • All human things hang on a slender thread, the strongest fall with a sudden crash.

  • Let love steal in disguised as friendship.

    Ovid (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)”, p.311, Delphi Classics
  • Ah me! love can not be cured by herbs.

  • Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.

  • Change is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

  • An evil life is a kind of death.

  • Courage conquers all things.

    Ovid (1988). “Tristia”, Loeb Classical Library
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