Ovid43 BC–AD 17- Ars Amatoria (The Art of Love), Book II, line 345
They come to see; they come that they themselves may be seen.
Ars Amatoria (The Art of Love), Book I, line 99 (tr. Henry T. Riley)- Heroides, I, 12
- Metamorphoses (Transformations), Book IV, 428
- Ars Amatoria (The Art of Love), Book I, line 720; translated by J. Lewis May in The Love Books of Ovid, 1930
- Metamorphoses (Transformations), Book XV, 234
It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe that there are.
Ars Amatoria (The Art of Love), Book I, line 637- Ars Amatoria (The Art of Love), Book II, line 107
- Amores (Love Affairs), Book I; ix, 46
- Ars Amatoria (The Art of Love), Book III, line 502 (tr. Len Krisak)
- Ars Amatoria (The Art of Love), Book I, line 389 (tr. James Michie)
No fairer law in all the land
Than that death-dealers die by what they’ve planned.Ars Amatoria (The Art of Love), Book I, lines 655–656 (tr. Len Krisak)Love yields to business. If you seek a way out of love, be busy; you’ll be safe then.
Remedia Amoris (The Cure for Love), Lines 143–144- Fasti, Book II, line 117
- Tristia, Book I, poem 1, line 39
