Ovid

Quotes

1. Plenty has made me poor.

2. Thus all things are but altered, nothing dies.

3. I see better things, and approve, but I follow worse.

4. Then the omnipotent Father with his thunder made Olympus tremble, and from Ossa hurled Pelion.

5. Thus, while the mute creation downward bend

   Their sight, and to their earthly mother tend,

   Man looks aloft, and with erected eyes

   Beholds his own hereditary skies.

6. The workmanship excelled the materials.

7. 

   The mind, conscious of rectitude, laughed to scorn the falsehood of report.

8. 

   There is a god within us.

   It is when he stirs us that our bosom warms ; it is

   his impulse that sows the seeds of inspiration.

9. My son, I caution you to keep

   The middle way, for if your pinions dip

   Too low the waters may impede your flight;

   And if they soar too high the sun may scorch them.

   Fly midway.

10. For those things which were done either by our fathers, or ancestors, and in which we ourselves had no share, we can scarcely call our own.

11. You will be safest in the middle.

12. 

    Pursuits become habits.