Quotes by Ovid

“Sleep rest of nature O sleep most gentle of the divinities peace of the soul thou at whose presence care disappears who soothest hearts wearied with daily employments and makest them strong ...”

“In an easy cause any man may be eloquent.”

“It is some relief to weep grief is satisfied and carried off by tears.”

“What one beholds of a woman is the least part of her.”

“A woman is always buying something.”

“Whether they give or refuse women are glad to have been asked.”

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

“It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. ... The life we receive is not short but we make it so”

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

“Offering care means being a companion, not a superior. It doesn’t matter whether the person we are caring for is experiencing cancer, the flu, dementia, or grief.If you are a doctor or surgeon, you...”

“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 no...”

“Brass shines with constant usage, a beautiful dress needs wearing,Leave a house empty, it rots.”

“Oh for ’Shael’s sweet sake, girl, you think you can rule an empire without lying? You think your father didn’t lie? Or his father? Or any of your goldy-eyed great-great-founders of Annur? It’s buil...”

“I got nervous at bulls and eagles,Trying to figure what shape Zeus might take f”

“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 ...”

“How were they to square the tremendous wealth they accrued with their image of themselves as frugal and virtuous? Easy: just argue that commerce was itself virtuous. To be rich in corrupt old Europ...”

“Self-destructive behaviors do not exist because there is a force within us that tries to hasten our return to an inorganic state”

“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much”

“This is what we are for, Alin,” the older guardsman said, turning to his companion. Adare had never heard anyone use Birch’s first name. She hadn’t even known it herself. “Our lives for hers. If sh...”

“And now the measure of my song is done: The work has reached its end; the book is mine, None shall unwrite these words: nor angry Jove, Nor war, nor fire, nor flood, Nor venomous time that eats our...”