The need has gone; the memorial thereof remains. Ovid More Quotes by Ovid More Quotes From Ovid A frail gift is beauty, which grows less as time draws on, and is devoured by its own years. Ovid frail beauty years Resist beginnings: it is too late to employ medicine when the evil has grown strong by inveterate habit. Ovid medicine strong evil That load becomes light which is cheerfully borne. Ovid load cheerfulness light We covet what is guarded; the very care invokes the thief. Few love what they may have. Ovid thieves care may Alas! How difficult it is to prevent the countenance from betraying guilt! Ovid betray difficult guilt Habit had made the custom. Ovid customs habit made The mind conscious of innocence despises false reports: but we are a set always ready to believe a scandal. Ovid scandal mind believe To be silent is but a small virtue; but it is a serious fault to reveal secrets. Ovid faults silence secret He who has it in his power to commit sin, is less inclined to do so. The very idea of being able, weakens the desire. Ovid able desire ideas If Jupiter hurled his thunderbolt as often as men sinned, he would soon be out of thunderbolts. Ovid jupiter sin men Indulgent gods, grant me to sin once with impunity. That is sufficient. Let a second offence bear its punishment. Ovid punishment sin bears The least strength suffices to break what is bruised. Ovid bruised break strength By faithful study of the nobler arts, our nature's softened, and more gentle grows. Ovid faithful study art Treat a thousand dispositions in a thousand ways. Ovid disposition treats way Stones are hollowed out by the constant dropping of water. Ovid dropping stones water What follows I flee; what flees I ever pursue. Ovid pursue progress Though the power be wanting, yet the wish is praiseworthy. Ovid praiseworthy power wish Idleness ruins the constitution Ovid idleness ruins constitution If it were in my power, I would be wiser; but a newly felt power carries me off in spite of myself; love leads me one way, my understanding another. Ovid self-love understanding way The judge's duty is to inquire about the time, as well as the facts. Ovid duty judging facts
