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 (43BC - 17AD)
“Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.”
— Ovid (43BC - 17AD)
“Perfer et obdura, dolor hic tibi proderit olim. (Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.)”
— Ovid (43BC - 17AD)
“Omnia mutantur, nihil interit (everything changes, nothing perishes).”
— Ovid (43BC - 17AD)
“Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.”
— Ovid (43BC - 17AD)
“It's a kindness that the mind can go where it wishes.”
— Ovid (43BC - 17AD)
“Nothing is stronger than habit.”
— Ovid (43BC - 17AD)
“Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.”
— Ovid (43BC - 17AD)
“All things change; nothing perishes.”
— Ovid (43BC - 17AD)
“The cause is hidden. The effect is visible to all.”
— Ovid (43BC - 17AD)
“Greatly he failed, but he had greatly dared.”
— Ovid (43BC - 17AD)
"Perfer et obdura; dolor hic tibi proderit olim."
("Have patience and endure; this unhappiness will one day be beneficial.")
— Ovid (43BC - 17AD)
"The purpose of law is to prevent the strong always having their way."
— Ovid (43BC - 17AD)
"A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace."
— Ovid (43BC - 17AD)
"He lives well who lives retired, and keeps
His wants within the limits of his means."
— Ovid (43BC - 17AD)
"If you are not ready today, you will be even less so tomorrow."
— Ovid (43BC - 17AD)
"There is nothing constant in the universe. All ebb and flow, and every shape that's born, bears in its womb the seeds of change."
— Ovid (43BC - 17AD)
"Misfortunes often sharpen the genius."
— Ovid (43BC - 17AD)
"Difficulty is what wakes up the genius."
— Ovid (43BC - 17AD)
"Et res non semper, spes mihi semper adest."
("My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.")
— Ovid (43BC - 17AD)
"Stop short of your appetite; eat less than you are able."
— Ovid (43BC - 17AD)
"What is without periods of rest will not endure."
— Ovid (43BC - 17AD)
"Passion persuades me one way, reason another. I see the better and approve it, but I follow the worse."
— Ovid (43BC - 17AD)
"The result proves the wisdom of the act."
— Ovid (43BC - 17AD)
"A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward."
— Ovid (43BC - 17AD)