Zitat des Tages von Ovid:
The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool.
Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.
He who can believe himself well, will be well.
Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.
Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.
It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are.
Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.
Time, the devourer of all things.
It is the poor man who'll ever count his flock.
Venus favors the bold.
Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.
Little things please little minds.
The gods behold all righteous actions.
A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
You can learn from anyone even your enemy.
Give way to your opponent; thus will you gain the crown of victory.
An evil life is a kind of death.
Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength.
Art lies by its own artifice.
Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.
Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.
I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement.
The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.
To feel our ills is one thing, but to cure them is another.
Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery.
He whom all hate all wish to see destroyed.
Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.
Neglect of appearance becomes men.
Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.
Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.
Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.
Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.
The bold adventurer succeeds the best.
Time is the devourer of all things.
Where belief is painful we are slow to believe.
There is a god within us.
