The prickly thorn often bears soft roses.

— Ovid

There is a certain pleasure in weeping

— Ovid

There is no such thing as pure pleasure some anxiety always goes with it.

— Ovid

Time is a stream which glides smoothly on and is past before we know.

— Ovid

Time is generally the best doctor.

— Ovid

Time is the devoured of all things.

— Ovid

Time, the devoured of all things.

— Ovid

What one beholds of a woman is the least part of her.

— Ovid

When he, whoever of the gods it was, had thus arranged in order and resolved that chaotic mass, and reduced it, thus resolved, to cosmic parts, he first molded the Earth into the form of a mighty ball so that it might be of like form on every side … And, that no region might be without its own forms of animate life, the stars and divine forms occupied the floor of heaven, the sea fell to the shining fishes for their home, Earth received the beasts, and the mobile air the birds … Then Man was born:… though all other animals are prone, and fix their gaze upon the earth, he gave to Man an uplifted face and bade him stand erect and turn his eyes to heaven.

— Ovid

Whether they give or refuse women are glad to have been asked.

— Ovid