Ovid: Quotes about love

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

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

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

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

“Love is the force that leaves you colorless”

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

“Let love steal in disguised as friendship.”
Intret amicitiae nomine tectus amor.

“Young love is errant, but it needs to get around;
The time and practice make it strong and sound.
That bull you fear, you petted when it wasn't big;
What now you sleep beneath was once a twig.
That little stream, in gaining waters as it goes,
Grows stronger, till at last a river flows.”
Dum novus errat amor, vires sibi colligat usu: Si bene nutrieris, tempore firmus erit. Quem taurum metuis, vitulum mulcere solebas: Sub qua nunc recubas arbore, virga fuit: Nascitur exiguus, sed opes adquirit eundo, Quaque venit, multas accipit amnis aquas.

“Love yields to business. If you seek a way out of love, be busy; you'll be safe then.”
Qui finem quaeris amoris, Cedit amor rebus; res age, tutus eris.

“Love is a thing full of anxious fears.”
Res est solliciti plena timoris amor.

“Let him who loves, where love success may find,
Spread all his sails before the prosp'rous wind;
But let poor youths who female scorn endure,
And hopeless burn, repair to me for cure.”
Siquis amat quod amare iuvat, feliciter ardens Gaudeat, et vento naviget ille suo. At siquis male fert indignae regna puellae, Ne pereat, nostrae sentiat artis opem.

“Let the man who does not wish to be idle fall in love!”
Qui nolet fieri desidiosus, amet!

“I am the poor man's poet; because I am poor myself and I have known what it is to be in love. Not being able to pay them in presents, I pay my mistresses in poetry.”
Pauperibus vates ego sum, quia pauper amavi; Cum dare non possem munera, verba dabam.

“Love is a kind of warfare.”
Militiae species amor est.