Art lies by its own artifice. Ovid More Quotes by Ovid More Quotes From Ovid Love fed fat soon turns to boredom. Ovid fedsfatsboredom 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 happy-birthdaydustyears Time is generally the best doctor. Ovid medicaldoctorstime You will be melancholy, if you are solitary. Ovid melancholysolitaryifs Gutta cavat lapidem, non vi sed saepe cadendo. (The drop excavates the stone, not with force but by falling often.) Ovid evolutionstonesfall To wish is of little account; to succeed you must earnestly desire; and this desire must shorten thy sleep. Ovid ambitionwishsleep Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves. Ovid slothwatermoving Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop Ovid wisdomsuccessinspirational He lives well who lives retired, and keeps Ovid limitswantmean If you want to be loved, be lovable. Ovid inspirationallovelife Virtue and vice, evil and good, are siblings, or next-door neighbors, Easy to make mistakes, hard to tell them apart. Ovid siblingmistakedoors All things can corrupt perverse minds. Ovid corruptionall-thingsmind There is no small pleasure in pure water. Ovid small-pleasurespurewater Luck affects everything; let your hook always be cast. Ovid hooklucky-daygood-luck Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships, the poor man everywhere lies low. Ovid moneysuccesslife Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality. Ovid visionbeautyreality It is no less a feat to keep what you have, than to increase it. In one there is chance, the other will be a work of art. Ovid increasechanceart Keep thy hook always baited, for a fish lurks even in the most unlikely swim. Ovid unlikelyhookswim Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery. Ovid knaverydifferenceslying Seeking is all very well, but holding requires greater talent: Seeking involves some luck; now the demand is for skill. Ovid demandluckskills
