Ovid: Trending quotes (page 6)

“If you would be loved, be lovable”
Ut ameris, amabilis esto.

“A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.”

“Love will enter cloaked in friendship's name.”

“It's a kindness that the mind can go where it wishes.”

“I am dragged along by a strange new force. Desire and reason are pulling in different directions. I see the right way and approve it, but follow the wrong.”

“Anything cracked will shatter at a touch.”

“We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.”
Nitimur in vetitum semper, cupimusque negata.

“Give me the waters of Lethe that numb the heart, if they exist, I will still not have the power to forget you.”

“I am the poet of the poor, because I was poor when I loved; since I could not give gifts, I gave words.”

“Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.”

“Fas est ab hoste doceri.
One should learn even from one's enemies.”

“Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.”
"Be patient and tough; one day this pain will be useful to you.”

“I grabbed a pile of dust, and holding it up, foolishly asked for as many birthdays as the grains of dust, I forgot to ask that they be years of youth.”

“Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.”
Perfer et obdura, dolor hic tibi proderit olim.

“Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.”

“As wave is driven by wave
And each, pursued, pursues the wave ahead,
So time flies on and follows, flies, and follows,
Always, for ever and new. What was before
Is left behind; what never was is now;
And every passing moment is renewed.”

“God himself helps those who dare.”

“So I can't live either without you or with you.”
Sic ego nec sine te nec tecum vivere possum.

“Dignity and love do not blend well, nor do they continue long together.”