Ovid

Quotes

1. O impious use! to Nature's laws oppos'd,

   Where bowels are in other bowels clos'd:

   Where fatten'd by their fellow's fat, they thrive;

   Maintain'd by murder, and by death they live.

   'Tis then for nought, that Mother Earth provides

   The stores of all she shows, and all she hides,

   If men with fleshy morsels must be fed,

   And chaw with bloody teeth the breathing bread:

   What else is this, but to devour our guests,

   And barb'rously renew Cyclopean feasts!

   We, by destroying life, our life sustain;

   And gorge th' ungodly maw with meats obscene.

2. Time, the devourer of all things.

3. 

   Love is a thing full of anxious fears.

4. 

   Now are fields of corn where Troy once stood.

5. 

   We're slow to believe what wounds us.

6. 

   The end proves the acts (were done), or the result is a test of the actions; Ovid's line 85 full translation: “The event proves well the wisdom of her [Phyllis'] course.”

7. Nomenque erit indelebile nostrum.

8. Invia virtuti nulla est via!

9. Fas est et ab hoste doceri.

10. Ars adeo latet arte sua.

11. 

    Di pia facta vident.

12. Chaos, rudis indigestaque moles.