Ovid
We two are to ourselves a crowd.
Courage conquers all things.
Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.
Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.
The result justifies the deed. (Exitus acta probat)
All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.
By faithful study of the nobler arts, our nature's softened, and more gentle grows.
Love will enter cloaked in friendship's name.
Tears at times have all the weight of speech.
The cause is hidden. The effect is visible to all.
Dignity and love do not blend well, nor do they continue long together.
Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.
Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.
Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.
What is allowed us is disagreeable, what is denied us causes us intense desire.
We are slow to believe that which if believed would hurt our feelings.
Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.
If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.
There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
It is the mind that makes the man.
When I was from Cupid's passions free, my Muse was mute and wrote no elegy.
Judgement of beauty can err, what with the wine and the dark.