Ovid

Be patient and tough some day this pain will be useful to you

Have consideration for wounded feelings.

Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

Bear patiently with a rival.

My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.

It is something to hold the scepter with a firm hand.

Give way to your opponent; thus will you gain the crown of victory.

Great talents, by the rust of long disuse, Grow lethargic and shrink from what they were.

Majesty and love do not consort well together, nor do they dwell in the same place.

Envy feeds on the living after death it rests then the honor of a man protects him.

Love is a thing that is full of cares and fears.

The cause is hidden; the effect is visible to all.

Our native soil draws all of us, by I know not what sweetness, and never allows us to forget.

A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.

As wave is driven by wave And each, pursued, pursues the wave ahead, So time flies on and follows, flies, and follows, Always, for ever and new. What was before Is left behind; what never was is now; And every passing moment is renewed.

Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.

Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.

Fortune and love favor the brave.

The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late.

Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.

We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.

As the hawk is wont to pursue the trembling doves.

A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.

Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.

Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.

That fair face will as years roll on lose its beauty, and old age will bring its wrinkles to the brow.

He whom all hate all wish to see destroyed.

Fair peace becomes men ferocious anger belongs to beasts.

Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves.

Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.

Take rest a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.

Against the bold, daring is unsafe.

Time is the devourer of all things.

Daring is not safe against daring men.

He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.

You will go most safely in the middle.

Burdens become light when cheerfully borne.

What is without periods of rest will not endure.

A man is sorry to be honest for nothing.

Let what is irksome become habitual, no more will it trouble you.

The gods behold all righteous actions.

It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.

It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are.

Mad desire, when it has the most, longs for more.

It is prudence that first forsakes the wretched.

No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.

It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

Every lover is a soldier.

First appearance deceives many.

Luck affects everything; let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it, there will be a fish.

The god we now behold with opened eyes, A herd of spotted panthers round him lies In glaring forms; the grapy clusters spread On his fair brows, and dangle on his head.

Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.

Love is full of anxious fears.

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.

Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason.

Well has he lived who has lived well in obscurity.

Skilled in every trick a worthy heir of his paternal craft he would make black look like white and white look black.

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.

A short absence is the safest.

Hastiness is the beginning of wrath, and its end repentance.

Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.

There is a certain pleasure in weeping.

There is no useful thing which may not be turned to an injurious purpose.

Give way to your opponent thus will you gain the crown of victory.

Tears are sometimes as weighty as words.

At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.

Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.

I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement.

The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.

Remove the temptation of idleness and cupids bow is useless.

Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.

Take rest; a field that has rested gives a beautiful crop.

The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.

Use the occasion, for it passes swiftly.

The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal.

Make the workmanship surpass the materials.

Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.

The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

Lips, however rosy, must be fed.

All things change nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward all things are brought into being with a changing nature the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Time is generally the best doctor.

In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are.

All things can corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.

Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.

Though we be separated by the whole wide world, You are ever present in my mind.

Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.

Rare is the virtue that's not ruled by Fortune, That stands unshaken even when Fortune flees.

We can learn even from our enemies.

The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.

Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.

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.

Either do not attempt at all, or go through with it.

It's useful that there should be Gods, so let's believe there are.

Pleasant words are the food of love.