Ovid: Trending quotes (page 5)

“My soul would sing of metamorphoses.
But since, o gods, you were the source of these
bodies becoming other bodies, breathe
your breath into my book of changes: may
the song I sing be seamless as its way
weaves from the world's beginning to our day.”

“It is right to learn even from an enemy.”

“Someday this pain will be useful to you”

“Nitimur in vetitum" -- "We strive after the forbidden”

“or that writing a poem you can read to no one
is like dancing in the dark.”

“Greatly he failed, but he had greatly dared.”

“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.”

“Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.”

“Barbarus hic ego sum, quia non intelligor illis.

(In this place I am a barbarian, because men do not understand me.)”

“Saepe creat molles aspera spina rosas" - "Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses”

“Eurydice, dying now a second time, uttered no complaint against her husband. What was there to complain of, but that she had been loved?”

“Take rest; a field that has rested gives a beautiful crop.”

“In our play we reveal what kind of people we are”

“Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.”

“I flee who chases me and chase who flees me.”

“Thus I am not able to exist either with you or without you; and I seem not to know my own wishes.”

“Love is the force that leaves you colorless”

“Every lover is a soldier.”
Militat omnis amans

“Nothing is stronger than habit.”
Nil adsuetudine maius.