Ovid

Well has he lived who has lived well in obscurity.

Give way to your opponent; thus will you gain the crown of victory.

What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps with it alone, she lives.

The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.

It is the mind that makes the man, and our vigour is in our immortal soul.

Tears at times have the weight of speech.

There is a God within us, and we glow when He stirs us.

What is allowed us is disagreeable, what is denied us causes us intense desire.

As wave is driven by wave_x000D_ And each, pursued, pursues the wave ahead,_x000D_ So time flies on and follows, flies, and follows,_x000D_ Always, for ever and new. What was before_x000D_ Is left behind; what never was is now;_x000D_ And every passing moment is renewed.

Time is generally the best doctor.

The gift derives its value from the rank of the giver.

Lente, lente currite, noctis equi. Translation: Run slowly, slowly, horses of the night.

When there is plenty of wine, sorrow and worry take wing.

Dripping water hollows out a stone

Nothing retains its form; new shapes from old. Nature, the great inventor, ceaselessly contrives. In all creation, be assured, there is no death - no death, but only change and innovation; what we men call birth is but a different new beginning; death is but to cease to be the same. Perhaps this may have moved to that, and that to this, yet still the sum of things remains the same.

Anyone can be rich in promises.

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

It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

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

Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.