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

Ovid book Ars amatoria

Variant translation: Nothing is more powerful than custom.
Book II, line 345
Ars Amatoria (The Art of Love)

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

Ovid book Ars amatoria

Variant translation: To be loved, be lovable.
Book II, line 107
Compare: Si vis amari, ama. ("If you wish to be loved, love"), attributed to Hecato by Seneca the Younger in Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium, Epistle IX
Ars Amatoria (The Art of Love)
Variant: If you want to be loved, be lovable.

“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.”

Ovid

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

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

Ovid

Source: The Poems of Exile: Tristia and the Black Sea Letters

“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.”

Ovid Metamorphoses

Source: Metamorphoses

“Anything cracked will shatter at a touch.”

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

Ovid book Amores

Variant translation: We hunt for things unlawful with swift feet, / As if forbidden joys were only sweet.
Book III; iv, 17
Amores (Love Affairs)

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

Ovid

Source: The Poems of Exile: Tristia and the Black Sea Letters

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

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

Ovid Metamorphoses

Source: Metamorphoses

“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.”

Ovid Metamorphoses

Source: Metamorphoses

“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.”

Ovid Metamorphoses

Source: Metamorphoses

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

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“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.”

Ovid Metamorphoses

Source: Metamorphoses

“God himself helps those who dare.”

Ovid Metamorphoses

Source: Metamorphoses

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

Ovid book Amores

Variant translation: Thus, I can neither live without you nor with you.
Book III; xib, 39
Compare: Nec possum tecum vivere nec sine te ("I cannot live with you nor without you"), Martial, Epigrams XII, 46
Amores (Love Affairs)