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Ovid on Anniversary

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Jupiter from on high laughs at the perjuries of lovers.

If you give up your quiet life, the bow of Cupid will lose its power.

Let the man who does not wish to be idle fall in love!

Truly now is the golden age; the highest honour comes by means of gold; by gold love is procured.

Heaven makes sport of human affairs, and the present hour gives no sure promise of the next.

If thou wishest to put an end to love, attend to business (love yields to employment); then thou wilt be safe.

In time the unmanageable young oxen come to the plough; in time the horses are taught to endure the restraining bit.

Majesty and love do not well agree, nor do they live together.

Neither will the wave which has passed be called back; nor can the hour which has gone by return.

Ah, majesty and love go ill together,
Nor long share one abode!

It is not safe to despise what Love commands. He reigns supreme, and rules the mighty gods.

Time glides by, and we grow old with the silent years; and the days flee away with no restraining curb.

Thus I am not able to exist either with you or without you; and I seem not to know my own wishes.

Alas for me, love is incurable
With any herb; the arts which cure the others
Do me, their lord, no good!

Time steals on and escapes us, like the swift river that glides on with rapid stream.

The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

For this reason, if you believe proverbs, let me tell you the common one: "It is unlucky to marry in May."

If thou wouldst marry wisely, marry thine equal.

Every lover is a soldier. (Love is a warfare).

We covet what is guarded; the very care invokes the thief. Few love what they may have.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ovid (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.