Heroides Quotes

“Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.”
― Ovid, Heroides

“We believe slowly when belief brings pain.”
― Ovid, Heroides

“The result justifies the deed
(Exitus acta probat)”
― Ovid, Heroides

“Read what is here. How could reading a letter harm you?

There might even be something in it that pleases you.

My secrets are carried, by these letters, over land and sea:

even enemies read letters received from their enemies.”
― Ovid, Heroides

“The rest night knows, and we, and the tower that sees, and the light that showed me a path through the sea.”
― Ovid, Heroides

“Is it fitting then, that I go out wearing robes dipped in costly purple while you, my lord, are in battle by the walls of Troy?
Should I arrange my hair while a great helmet weighs down his head? Should I put on new garments while he is burdened with heavy arms?”
― Ovid, Heroides

“Love has always been tempered by fear”
― Ovid, Heroides

“The Greeks think you mourn,
but you are making music and a gentle
maiden holds you in her warm embrace.
Why won't you fight? Because to fight is a risk
while a lyre and Venus at night bring
delight.”
― Ovid, Heroides