Publio Ovidio Nasone: Frasi in inglese (pagina 2)

“Love will enter cloaked in friendship's name.”

“A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.”

“If you would be loved, be lovable”
Ut ameris, amabilis esto.

“Nothing is stronger than habit.”
Nil adsuetudine maius.

“Every lover is a soldier.”
Militat omnis amans

“Love is the force that leaves you colorless”

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

“I flee who chases me and chase who flees me.”

“Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.”

“In our play we reveal what kind of people we are”

“Take rest; a field that has rested gives a beautiful crop.”

“Eurydice, dying now a second time, uttered no complaint against her husband. What was there to complain of, but that she had been loved?”

“Saepe creat molles aspera spina rosas" - "Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses”

“Barbarus hic ego sum, quia non intelligor illis.

(In this place I am a barbarian, because men do not understand me.)”

“Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.”

“All right, boy, skewer me. I've dropped my defenses,
I'm an easy victim. Why, by now
Your arrows practically know their own way to the target
And feel less at home in their quiver than in me.”

“Greatly he failed, but he had greatly dared.”

“or that writing a poem you can read to no one
is like dancing in the dark.”

“Nitimur in vetitum" -- "We strive after the forbidden”