Love Quote by Ovid

Bravery is doing double duty here: it is both a moral posture and a practical strategy. Ovid’s line yokes two forces people spend their lives trying to manage - fortune and love - and then commits a small act of rhetorical theft by claiming they aren’t actually random. They have tastes. They “favor.” That personification flatters the listener into believing the universe has a bias that can be courted, even gamed, if you have the nerve.

The subtext is less self-help than seduction. In Ovid’s world, especially the world that produced The Art of Love, desire isn’t a sacred mystery; it’s a social arena with rules, misdirection, and performance. “Be brave” is a prompt to act before the moment curdles into hesitation, to risk embarrassment, to speak first. The quote turns fear into the real antagonist: not bad luck, not rejection, but the paralysis that makes both inevitable.

“Fortune” also carries the Roman sense of Fortuna, the capricious goddess whose wheel lifts and crushes without apology. Ovid’s twist is audacious: if the gods are fickle, meet them with audacity. Bravery becomes a kind of negotiation with chaos, the one currency that seems to purchase opportunity.

It works because it’s simultaneously cynical and energizing. Ovid doesn’t promise justice; he promises odds. Bravery won’t guarantee love or luck, but it increases your exposure to both - and quietly reframes failure as the price of admission to a life where anything can happen.