911 Quotes by Ovid

Meet the disorder in the outset, the medicine may be too late, when the disease has gained ground through delay.

Beauty is a fragile gift.

We are slow to believe that which if believed would hurt our feelings.

We hate the hawk because he ever lives in battle.

Virtue and vice, evil and good, are siblings, or next-door neighbors, Easy to make mistakes, hard to tell them apart.

All-devouring time, envious age, Nought can escape you, and by slow degrees, Worn by your teeth, all things will lingering die.

With wavering steps does fickle fortune stray, Nowhere she finds a firm and fixed abode; But now all smiles, and now again all frowns, She's constant only in inconstancy.

"Gutta cavat lapidem." (Dripping water carves a stone.)

Skilled in every trick, a worthy heir of his paternal craft, he would make black look like white, and white look black. [Lat., Furtum ingeniosus ad omne, Qui facere assueret, patriae non degener artis, Candida de nigris, et de candentibus atra.]