Remedia Amoris is an 814-line poem in Latin by Roman poet Ovid.
“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.
Ovid book Remedia amoris
Source: Remedia Amoris (The Cure for Love), Lines 13-16
“Resist beginnings; the remedy comes too late when the disease has gained strength by long delays.”
Principiis obsta; sero medicina paratur
Cum mala per longas convaluere moras.
Ovid book Remedia amoris
Source: Remedia Amoris (The Cure for Love), Lines 91–92
“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.
Ovid book Remedia amoris
Source: Remedia Amoris (The Cure for Love), Lines 143–144
