Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), (43 BC - 17 AD), Roman Poet Quotes

Time is usually the best medicine. [Lat., Temporis ars medicina fere est.]

Though the power be wanting, the will deserves praise.

Those presents are the most acceptable which are enhanced by our regard for the donor.

This victory will be your I ruin.

Things which of themselves avail nothing, when united become powerful.

They come to see and be seen.

These are the evils which result from gossiping habits.

There is no useful thing which may not be turned to an injurious purpose.

There is no law more just, than that he, who plots death, should perish by his own craft.

There is a good deal in a man's mode of eating.

There is a certain kind of pleasure in weeping.

The vulgar follow Fortune's glances.

The time will come when you will hate the sight of a mirror.

The spirits run riot in youth.

The silent countenance often speaks with expressive eloquence.

The rose is often found near the nettle.

The robber and the cautious traveller alike are girded with the sword; the one uses it as a means of attack, the other as a means of defence.

The mother endures with greater courage the loss of one out many children, than she who, in her tears, exclaims, "Thou wast my only one!"

The more they drink the more they thirst.

The more highminded a man is the more easily is his anger appeased.