Quote #8
It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.
More from Ovid
- So long as you are secure you will count many friends; if your life becomes clouded you will be alone.
- Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.
- Poetry comes fine-spun from a mind at peace.
- The mind, conscious of rectitude, laughed to scorn the falsehood of report.
- Qui finem quaeris amoris/Cedit amor rebus; res age, tutus eris.
- They come to see; they come that they themselves may be seen.
- Resist beginnings; the prescription comes too late when the disease has gained strength by long delays.
- If you want to be loved, be lovable.