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OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)
Roman poet
(43 BC - c. 17 AD)
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The battle is over when the foe has fallen.
      - [Proverbs]

The burden becomes light that is shared by love.
      - [Endurance]

The cause lies hidden; the effect is most notorious.
      - [Proverbs]

The fish which has once felt the hook, suspects the crooked metal in every food which offers.
      - [Proverbs]

The girl is the smallest portion of herself. [The girl is all crinoline and chignon.]
      - [Proverbs]

The glow of inspiration warms us; this holy rapture springs from the seeds of the Divine mind sown in man.
      - [Inspiration]

The love of country is more powerful than reason itself.
      - [Patriotism]

The love of fame gives an immense stimulus.
      - [Fame]

The man who falls in love chill find plenty of occupation.
      - [Employment]

The mind ill at ease, the body suffers also.
      - [Proverbs]

The more highminded a man is the more easily is his anger appeased.
      - [Proverbs]

The more they drink the more they thirst.
      - [Proverbs]

The mother endures with greater courage the loss of one out many children, than she who, in her tears, exclaims, "Thou wast my only one!"
      - [Proverbs]

The poet's labors are a work of joy, and require peace of mind.
      - [Poets]

The robber and the cautious traveller alike are girded with the sword; the one uses it as a means of attack, the other as a means of defence.
      - [Proverbs]

The rose is often found near the nettle.
      - [Proverbs]

The silent countenance often speaks with expressive eloquence.
      - [Proverbs]

The spirits run riot in youth.
      - [Proverbs]

The time will come when you will hate the sight of a mirror.
      - [Proverbs]

The vulgar follow Fortune's glances.
      - [Proverbs]

There is a certain kind of pleasure in weeping.
      - [Proverbs]

There is a certain pleasure in weeping; grief finds in tears both a satisfaction and a cure.
      - [Weeping]

There is a good deal in a man's mode of eating.
      - [Proverbs]

There is no excellence uncoupled with difficulties.
      - [Excellence]

There is no law more just, than that he, who plots death, should perish by his own craft.
      - [Proverbs]


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