“So long as you are secure you will count many friends; if your life becomes clouded you will be alone.”

— Ovid, Tristia, I, ix, 5

About Ovid

Roman poet, author of the 'Metamorphoses' and 'Tristia'.

“Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength.”

“Time, in its stealthy gliding, cheats us all without our notice; nothing goes more swiftly than do the years.”

“Thanks are justly due for things got without purchase.”

“Spiritual friendship is the whole of the spiritual life!”

“So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart I shall say that life is good.”

“Life often seems like a long shipwreck, of which the débris are friendship, fame, and love.”

“It was not a fashionable place, but even among the pleasant people there, the girls made few friends, preferring to live for one another.”

“One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.”

“The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.”