It is not safe to despise what Love commands. He reigns supreme, and rules the mighty gods. Ovid More Quotes by Ovid More Quotes From Ovid Love fed fat soon turns to boredom. Ovid feds fats boredom 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-birthday dust years Time is generally the best doctor. Ovid medical doctors time You will be melancholy, if you are solitary. Ovid melancholy solitary ifs Gutta cavat lapidem, non vi sed saepe cadendo. (The drop excavates the stone, not with force but by falling often.) Ovid evolution stones fall To wish is of little account; to succeed you must earnestly desire; and this desire must shorten thy sleep. Ovid ambition wish sleep Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves. Ovid sloth water moving Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop Ovid wisdom success inspirational He lives well who lives retired, and keeps Ovid limits want mean If you want to be loved, be lovable. Ovid inspirational love life Virtue and vice, evil and good, are siblings, or next-door neighbors, Easy to make mistakes, hard to tell them apart. Ovid sibling mistake doors All things can corrupt perverse minds. Ovid corruption all-things mind There is no small pleasure in pure water. Ovid small-pleasures pure water Luck affects everything; let your hook always be cast. Ovid hook lucky-day good-luck Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships, the poor man everywhere lies low. Ovid money success life Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality. Ovid vision beauty reality 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 increase chance art Keep thy hook always baited, for a fish lurks even in the most unlikely swim. Ovid unlikely hook swim 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 knavery differences lying Seeking is all very well, but holding requires greater talent: Seeking involves some luck; now the demand is for skill. Ovid demand luck skills
