Ovid Quotes
Tears sometimes have the weight of spoken words.
Variant:
Tears at times have all the weight of speech.
Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.
Variant: Many women desire that which eludes them and hate that which is offered them.
All right, boy, skewer me. I've dropped my defenses,
I'm an easy victim. Why, by now
Your arrows practically know their own way to the target
And feel less at home in their quiver than in me.
Courage conquers all things.
Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.
Variant: At night there is no such thing as an ugly woman.
The result justifies the deed.
Variant: The end justify the means.
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.
Look at the four-spaced year
That imitates four seasons of our lives;
First Spring, that delicate season, bright with flowers,
Quickening, yet shy, and like a milk-fed child,
Its way unsteady while the countryman
Delights in promise of another year.
Green meadows wake to bloom, frail shoots and grasses,
And then Spring turns to Summer's hardiness,
The boy to manhood. There's no time of year
Of greater richness, warmth, and love of living,
New strength untried. And after Summer, Autumn,
First flushes gone, the temperate season here
Midway between quick youth and growing age,
And grey hair glinting when the head turns toward us,
Then senile Winter, bald or with white hair,
Terror in palsy as he walks alone.
We can learn even from our enemies.
Variant: One should learn even from one's enemies.
Variant: Right it is to be taught even by the enemy.
Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.
