Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) quote: "Alas! How difficult it is to prevent the countenance from betraying guilt! [Heu! quam difficile est crimen non prodere vultu.]"

Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves. [Lat., Cern...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)

Though the power be wanting, yet the wish is praiseworthy. [Lat., Ut desint vires tamen est laudan...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)

Embarrassment of riches. [Fr., Embarras des richesse.]
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)

Riches, the incentives to evil, are dug out of the earth. [Lat., Effodiuntur opes irritamenta malo...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)

The ungovernable passion for wealth. [Lat., Opum furiata cupido.]
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)

To wish for death is a coward's part. [Lat., Timidi est optare necem.]
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)

We covet what is guarded; the very care invokes the thief. Few love what they may have. [Lat., Q...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)

We are always striving for things forbidden, and coveting those denied us. [Lat., Nitimur in veti...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)

The cause is hidden, but the result is known. [Lat., Causa latet: vis est notissima.]
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)

Thou beginnest better than thou endest. The last is inferior to the first. [Lat., Coepisti mel...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)

Nor is there any law more just, than that he who has plotted death shall perish by his own plot. ...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)

That load becomes light which is cheerfully borne. [Lat., Leve fit quod bene fertur onus.]
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)

The wounded gladiator forswears all fighting, but soon forgetting his former wound resumes his arms...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)

A wound will perhaps become tolerable with length of time; but wounds which are raw shudder at the ...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)

There is no small pleasure in sweet water. [Lat., Est in aqua dulci non invidiosa voluptas.]
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)

Stones are hollowed out by the constant dropping of water.
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)

All human things hang on a slender thread, the strongest fall with a sudden crash. [Lat., Omnia s...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)

The least strength suffices to break what is bruised. [Lat., Minimae vires frangere quassa valent....
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)

What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief ...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)

Thanks are justly due for things got without purchase. [Lat., Gratia pro rebus merito debetur inem...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)

God himself favors the brave. [Lat., Audentes deus ipse juvat.]
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)

Some report elsewhere whatever is told them; the measure of fiction always increases, and each fres...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)

Then the Omnipotent Father with his thunder made Olympus tremble, and from Ossa hurled Pelion.
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)

As the hawk is wont to pursue the trembling doves. [Lat., Ut solet accipiter trepidas agitare colu...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)

A field becomes exhausted by constant tillage. [Lat., Continua messe senescit ager.]
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)

Have patience and endure; this unhappiness will one day be beneficial. [Lat., Perfer et obdura; d...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)

Believe me, the gods spare the afflicted, and do not always oppress those who are unfortunate. [L...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)

The mind conscious of innocence despises false reports: but we are a set always ready to believe a...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)

You do not know it but you are the talk of all the town. [Lat., Fabula (nec sentis) tota jactaris ...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)

Resist beginnings: it is too late to employ medicine when the evil has grown strong by inveterate ...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)

Truly now is the golden age; the highest honour comes by means of gold; by gold love is procured. ...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)

Like fragile ice anger passes away in time. [Lat., Ut fragilis glacies interit ira mora.]
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)

Treat a thousand dispositions in a thousand ways. [Lat., Mille animos excipe mille modis.]
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)

The whole earth is the brave man's country. [Lat., Omne solum forti patria est.]
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)

Our native land charms us with inexpressible sweetness, and never never allows us to forget that we...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)

The judge's duty is to inquire about the time, as well as the facts. [Lat., Judicis officium est ...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)

Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination. [Lat., Factis igno...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)

The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late. [Lat., Prisca j...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)

Habit had made the custom. [Lat., Morem fecerat usus.]
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)

Ill habits gather by unseen degrees, As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)

Pursuits become habits. [Lat., Abeunt studia in mores.]
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)

Nothing is stronger than habit. [Lat., Nil consuetudine majus.]
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)

The raven once in snowy plumes was drest, White as the whitest dove's unsullied breast, Fair a...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)

The need has gone; the memorial thereof remains. [Lat., Factum abiit; monumenta manent.]
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)

He who has lived obscurely and quietly has lived well. [Lat., Bene qui latuit, bene vixit.]
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)

We have ploughed the vast ocean in a fragile bark. [Lat., Nos fragili vastum ligno sulcavimus aequ...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)

He who holds the hook is aware in what waters many fish are swimming. [Lat., Qui sustinet hamos, ...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)

Those graceful groves that shade the plain, Where Tiber rolls majestic to the main, And flatte...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)

Let those love now, who never loved before, Let those who always loved, now love the more.
OVID PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO

Rome was not built in a day.
OVID PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO

Alas! How difficult it is to prevent the countenance from betraying guilt! [Heu! quam difficile...
OVID PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO

Often a silent face has voice and words. [Lat., Saepe tacens vocem verbaque vultus habet.]
OVID PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO

That fair face will as years roll on lose its beauty, and old age will bring its wrinkles to the br...
OVID PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO

Tears are at times as eloquent as words. [Weeping hath a voice.]
OVID PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO

Take time: much may be gained by patience.
OVID PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO

Small minds are captivated by trifles.
OVID PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO

She only is chaste, who is chaste where there is no danger of detection: she who does not, because...
OVID PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO

Riches too increase, and the maddening craving for gold, So that men ever seek for more, that they...
OVID PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO

Rest strengthens the body, the mind too is thus supported; but unremitting toil destroys both.
OVID PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO

Pride is innate in beauty, and haughtiness is the companion of the fair.
OVID PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO

Pleasure is often the introduction to pain.
OVID PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO

Pedigree and ancestry and what we ourselves have not achieved, I scarcely recognize as our own.
OVID PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO

Our neighbour's crop is always more fruitful and his cattle produce more milk than our own.
OVID PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO

Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength. ...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)

Envy depreciates the genius of the great Homer. [Lat., Ingenium magni detractat livor Homeri.]
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)

Envy assails the noblest: the winds howl around the highest peaks. [Lat., Summa petit livor: pe...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)

Envy feeds on the living. It ceases when they are dead. [Lat., Pascitur in vivis livor; post fata...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)

It is a pleasure appropriate to man, for him to save a fellow-man, and gratitude is acquired in no ...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)

If Jupiter hurled his thunderbolt as often as men sinned, he would soon be out of thunderbolts. [...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)

He who has it in his power to commit sin, is less inclined to do so. The very idea of being able, ...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)

Indulgent gods, grant me to sin once with impunity. That is sufficient. Let a second offence bear...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)

Here shame dissuades him, there his fear prevails, And each by turns his aching heart assails.
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)

I am not ashamed that these reproaches can be cast upon us, and that they can not be repelled. [L...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)

Bear and forbear.
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)

Diseases of the mind impair the bodily powers. [Lat., Vitiant artus aegrae contagia mentis.]
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)

Sickness seizes the body from bad ventilation. [Lat., Aere non certo corpora languor habet.]
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)

We do not bear sweets; we are recruited by a bitter potion. [Lat., Dulcia non ferimus; succo renov...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)

It is something to hold the scepter with a firm hand. [Lat., Est aliquid valida sceptra tenere man...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)

Knowest thou not that kings have long hands? [Lat., An nescis longos regibus esse manus?]
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)

Birth and ancestry, and that which we have not ourselves achieved, we can scarcely call our own. ...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)

Anger assists hands however weak. [Lat., Quamlibet infirmas adjuvat ira manus.]
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)

The brave find a home in every land. [Lat., Omne solum forti patria est.]
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)

Fortune and love favour the brave. [Lat., Audentum Forsque Venusque juvant.]
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)

If it were in my power, I would be wiser; but a newly felt power carries me off in spite of myself;...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)

Where crime is taught from early years, it becomes a part of nature. [Lat., Ars fit ubi a teneris...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)

The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting. [Lat., Poena potest demi, culpa perennis...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)

What follows I flee; what flees I ever pursue. [Lat., Quod sequitur, fugio; quod fugit, usque sequ...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)

The love of glory gives an immense stimulus. [Lat., Immensum gloria calcar habet.]
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)

According to the state of a man's conscience, so do hope and fear on account of his deeds arise in ...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)

Our native land attracts us with some mysterious charm, never to be forgotten.
OVID PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO

Occupy yourself, and you will be out of harm's way.
OVID PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO

No thanks attach to a kindness long deferred.
OVID PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO

No herb can remedy the anguish of love.
OVID PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO

Neither shall the wave, which has passed on, ever be recalled; nor can the hour, which has once fle...
OVID PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO

My bark, once struck by the fury of the storm, dreads again to approach the place of danger.
OVID PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO

Make good use of your time, it flies fast.
OVID PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO

Mad desire, when it has the most, longs for more.
OVID PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO

Love conquers all things; let us own her dominion.
OVID PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO

Love and dignity do not dwell together.
OVID PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO

Let the poor man mind his tongue.
OVID PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO

Let but the hours of idleness cease, and the bow of Cupid will become broken and his torch extingui...
OVID PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO

It is not easy to bear prosperity unruffled.
OVID PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO

It is good to be taught even by an enemy.
OVID PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO

It is but a small merit to observe silence, but it is a grave fault to speak of matters on which we...
OVID PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO

In prosperity you may count on many friends; if the sky becomes overcast you will be alone.
OVID PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO

Imperceptibly the hours glide on, and beguile us as they pass.
OVID PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO

Idleness ruins the constitution.
OVID PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO

I too am not powerless, and my weapons strike hard.
OVID PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO

I shall speak facts; but some will say I deal in fiction.
OVID PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO

Bring a lawsuit against a man who can pay; the poor man's acts are not worth the expence.
OVID PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO

Bear and forbear.
OVID PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO

Novelty in all things is charming.
OVID PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO

It is a kingly act to help the fallen.
OVID PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO

I see the better course and approve of it; I follow, alas! the worse!
OVID PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO

When a rose dies, a thorn is left behind.
PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO

The glow of inspiration warms us; it is a holy rapture.
PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASOOVID

First appearance deceives many.
OVID

The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.
OVID

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

There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ev...
OVID

Venus favors the bold.
OVID

Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned.
OVID

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

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

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

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

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

If you want to be loved, be lovable.
OVID

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

Time is generally the best doctor.
OVID

A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip ...
OVID

An evil life is a kind of death.
OVID

The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.
OVID

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

Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships, the poor man everywhere lie...
OVID

Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast in the stream where you least expect there wil...
OVID

To be loved, be lovable. -Ovid.
OVID

Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.
OVID

As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there...
OVID

Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.
OVID

Had I not sinned what would there be for you to pardon. My fate has given you the opportunity for m...
OVID

Luck affects everything; let your hook always be cast. In the stream where you least expect it, ther...
OVID

Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.
OVID

Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him, Easy-going enough once you acknow...
OVID

No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase wit...
OVID

What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief i...
OVID

Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained b...
OVID

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

Nothing is swifter than our years.
OVID

Time is the devourer of all things.
OVID

Although they posses enough, and more than enough still they yearn for more.
OVID

As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.
OVID

This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.
OVID

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

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

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.
OVID

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.
OVID

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

everything changes, nothing perishes
OVID

All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. ...
OVID

Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe.
OVID

The burden which is well borne becomes light.
OVID

Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.
OVID

People are slow to believe that, which if believed would work them harm.
OVID

When he, whoever of the gods it was, had thus arranged in order and resolved that chaotic mass, and ...
OVID

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

The drop hollows the stone not by force but by often falling.
OVID

Always have your hook baited, in the pool you least think, there will be a fish.
OVID

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

That you may please others you must be forgetful of yourself.
OVID

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

Neglect of appearance becomes men.
OVID

When disposition wins us, the features please.
OVID

The time will come when it will disgust you to look in the mirror.
OVID

People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.
OVID

In an easy matter. Anybody can be eloquent.
OVID

To give requires good sense.
OVID

The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.
OVID

It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.
OVID

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

Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.
OVID

Habits change into character.
OVID

Forbear to lay the guilt of a few on the many.
OVID

Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be fish.
OVID

A man is sorry to be honest for nothing.
OVID

It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.
OVID

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

Bear patiently with a rival.
OVID

I am above being injured by fortune, though she steals away much, more will remain with me. The bles...
OVID

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

Remove the temptation of idleness and cupids bow is useless.
OVID

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

Keep a mid course between two extremes.
OVID

You will go most safely in the middle.
OVID

Gifts, believe me, captivate both men and Gods, Jupiter himself was won over and appeased by gifts.
OVID

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

It is no less a feat to keep what you have, than to increase it. In one there is chance, the other w...
OVID

A short absence is the safest.
OVID

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

Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.
OVID

Alas! How difficult it is to prevent the countenance from betraying guilt! [Heu! quam difficile est crimen non prodere vultu.]

Copied!

Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)

Alas! How difficult it is to prevent the countenance from betraying guilt! [Heu! quam difficile est crimen non prodere vultu.]

Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)

Share:

Related

More Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)