Ovid
Ovid
Publius Ovidius Naso, known as Ovid in the English-speaking world, was a Roman poet who lived during the reign of Augustus. He was a contemporary of the older Virgil and Horace with whom he is often ranked as one of the three canonical poets of Latin literature. The Imperial scholar Quintilian considered him the last of the Latin love elegists. He enjoyed enormous popularity, but, in one of the mysteries of literary history, he was sent by Augustus into exile...
NationalityRoman
ProfessionPoet
jewels simplicity found
Simplicity is a jewel rarely found.
love-and-friendship dignity share
Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.
keeping-promises broken-promises kept-promises
Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned.
sick mind suffering
The mind is sicker than the sick body; in contemplation of its sufferings it becomes hopeless. [Lat., Corpore sed mens est aegro magis aegra; malique In circumspectu stat sine fine sui.]
sick mind bears
The sick mind can not bear anything harsh. [Lat., Mensque pati durum sustinet aegra nihil.]
god sublime danger
Nothing is so high and above all danger that is not below and in the power of God. [Lat., Nihil ita sublime est, supraque pericula tendit Non sit ut inferius suppositumque deo.]
money men office
Money nowadays is money; money brings office; money gains friends; everywhere the poor man is down. [Lat., In pretio pretium nunc est; dat census honores, Census amicitias; pauper ubique jacet.]
crowds vulgar usefulness
The vulgar crowd values friends according to their usefulness.
milk produce crops
Our neighbour's crop is always more fruitful and his cattle produce more milk than our own.
ancestry pedigree
Pedigree and ancestry and what we ourselves have not achieved, I scarcely recognize as our own.
snow add balls
Every one who repeats it adds something to the scandal. [The rolling snow-ball.]
god heaven god-within-us
There is a God within us and intercourse with heaven. [Lat., Est deus in nobis; et sunt commercia coeli.]
envy feds hard
Love that is fed by jealousy dies hard.
generosity giver values
The gift derives its value from the rank of the giver.