Ovid Quotes

There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.
Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves.
Time is generally the best doctor.
Time is the devourer of all things.
Time, motion and wine cause sleep.
Time, the devourer of all things.
To feel our ills is one thing, but to cure them is another.
Use the occasion, for it passes swiftly.
Venus favors the bold.
We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.
What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless.
What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps; with it alone, she lives.
What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.
What is without periods of rest will not endure.
What makes men indifferent to their wives is that they can see them when they please.
Where belief is painful we are slow to believe.
Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.
Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.
Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.
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