Ovid

“To feel our ills is one thing, but to cure them is another.”

“Time, motion and wine cause sleep.”

“The burden which is well borne becomes light.”

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

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

“If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.”

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

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

“What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless.”

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

“The vulgar crowd values friends according to their usefulness.”

“The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.”

“Where belief is painful we are slow to believe.”

“Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships; the poor man everywhere lies low.”

“Art lies by its own artifice.”

“Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.”

“Love is a credulous thing.”

“When he, whoever of the gods it was, had thus arranged in order and resolved that chaotic mass, and reduced it, thus resolved, to cosmic parts, he first moulded the Earth into the form of a mighty ball so that it might be of like form on every side … And, that no region might be without its own forms of animate life, the stars and divine forms occupied the floor of heaven, the sea fell to the shining fishes for their home, Earth received the beasts, and the mobile air the birds … Then Man was born:… though all other animals are prone, and fix their gaze upon the earth, he gave to Man an uplifted face and bade him stand erect and turn his eyes to heaven.”

“Fas est ab hoste doceri.One should learn even from one's enemies.”

“Tears at times have the weight of speech.”