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Ovid on Valentine's Day

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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.

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

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

A pleasing countenance is no slight advantage.

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.

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!

The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

I would that you were either less beautiful, or less corrupt. Such perfect beauty does not suit such imperfect morals.

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.

Let him who loves, where love success may find,
Spread all his sails before the prosp'rous wind;
But let poor youths who female scorn endure,
And hopeless burn, repair to me for cure.

Let love steal in disguised as friendship.

If you want to be loved, be lovable.

If it were in my power, I would be wiser; but a newly felt power carries me off in spite of myself; love leads me one way, my understanding another.

Ah me! love can not be cured by herbs.

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