I see better things, and approve, but I follow worse.Ovid
Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him, easy-going enough once you acknowledge his power.Ovid
Nothing retains its own form; but Nature, the greater renewer, ever makes up forms from other forms. Be sure there's nothing perishes in the whole universe; it does but vary and renew its form.Ovid
Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.Ovid
An evil life is a kind of death.Ovid
Time, which sees all things, has found you out.Ovid
The cause is hidden. The effect is visible to all.Ovid
There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.Ovid
The result justifies the deed.Ovid
Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.Ovid
Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.Ovid
A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.Ovid
Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts.Ovid
Let your old age be childlike, and your childhood like old age; that is, so that neither may your wisdom be with pride, nor your humility without wisdom.Ovid
We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.Ovid