A biography for Ovidhasn’t been written yet.
“He whom all hate all wish to see destroyed.”
“If you want to be loved, be lovable.”
“Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.”
“The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.”
“Give way to your opponent; thus will you gain the crown of victory.”
“Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.”
“Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned.”
“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.”
“It is the poor man who'll ever count his flock.”
“What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.”
“Time is generally the best doctor.”
“Majesty and love do not consort well together, nor do they dwell in the same place.”
“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.”
“Saepe creat molles aspera spina rosas" - "Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses”
“The cause is hidden; the effect is visible to all.”
“Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.”
“Neglect of appearance becomes men.”
“Her clear conscience mocked rumour’s mendacity, But we are a mob prone to credit sin.”
“Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.”
“At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.”