Obras

Las metamorfosis
OvidioFrases célebres de Ovidio
“Deja caer siempre tu anzuelo; en el lugar en el que menos esperes, habrá peces.”
Casus ubique valet; semper tibi pendeat hamus
Quo minime credas gurgite, piscis erit.
Frases de amor de Ovidio
“El que persigue ayudado por las alas del Amor es más veloz y no necesita descanso.”
Fuente: Metamorfosis; Dafne se transforma en laurel.
Ovidio Frases y Citas
“Aprender es lo correcto, aunque sea del enemigo.”
Sin fuentes
Fuente:
Fuente: Robert Greene, El arte de la seduccion.
Fuente: Metamorfosis; siglo primero.
Fuente: Metamorfosis; Roma, siglo primero
Arte de amar / Remedios de Amor
Fuente: Genus et proavos, et quae non ipsum faecimus, vix ea nostra puto (Metamorfosis XIII, 140).
“Bien vivió quien bien se escondió.”
Fuente: Citado en Gala, Antonio. Carta a Los Herederos. Colección Documento Series. Edición ilustrada. Editorial GeoPlaneta, Editorial, S. A., 1995. ISBN 9788408015482. p. 119.
Ovidio: Frases en inglés
“The cause is hidden. The effect is visible to all.”
Causa latet, vis est notissima
Variant translation: The cause is hidden; the effect is visible to all.
Book IV, 287
Metamorphoses (Transformations)
Variante: The cause is hidden, but the result is well known.
“So I can't live either without you or with you.”
Sic ego nec sine te nec tecum vivere possum.
Variant translation: Thus, I can neither live without you nor with you.
Book III; xib, 39
Compare: Nec possum tecum vivere nec sine te ("I cannot live with you nor without you"), Martial, Epigrams XII, 46
Amores (Love Affairs)
“Omnia mutantur, nihil interit (everything changes, nothing perishes).”
Variante: All things change; nothing perishes.
Fuente: Metamorphoses
“Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.”
Casus ubique valet; semper tibi pendeat hamus
Quo minime credas gurgite, piscis erit.
Book III, line 425
Ars Amatoria (The Art of Love)
Fuente: Heroides
Contexto: Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.
“Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.”
Perfer et obdura, dolor hic tibi proderit olim.
“Fas est ab hoste doceri.
One should learn even from one's enemies.”
Fuente: Metamorphoses
Fuente: The Poems of Exile: Tristia and the Black Sea Letters
“We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.”
Nitimur in vetitum semper, cupimusque negata.
Variant translation: We hunt for things unlawful with swift feet, / As if forbidden joys were only sweet.
Book III; iv, 17
Amores (Love Affairs)
“It's a kindness that the mind can go where it wishes.”
Fuente: The Poems of Exile: Tristia and the Black Sea Letters
“If you would be loved, be lovable”
Ut ameris, amabilis esto.
Variant translation: To be loved, be lovable.
Book II, line 107
Compare: Si vis amari, ama. ("If you wish to be loved, love"), attributed to Hecato by Seneca the Younger in Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium, Epistle IX
Ars Amatoria (The Art of Love)
Variante: If you want to be loved, be lovable.
“Nothing is stronger than habit.”
Nil adsuetudine maius.
Variant translation: Nothing is more powerful than custom.
Book II, line 345
Ars Amatoria (The Art of Love)
“Every lover is a soldier.”
Militat omnis amans
Book I; ix, line 1
Fuente: Amores (Love Affairs)