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
names empty losing-friendship
Friendship is but a name; fidelity but an empty name.
cracked
Anything cracked will shatter at a touch.
friendship herds advantage
The vulgar herd estimate friendship by its advantages. [Lat., Vulgus amicitias utilitate probat.]
deeds righteous
The gods see the deeds of the righteous. [Lat., Di pia facta vident.]
passing-moments time-flies wave
As wave is driven by wave And each, pursued, pursues the wave ahead, So time flies on and follows, flies, and follows, Always, for ever and new. What was before Is left behind; what never was is now; And every passing moment is renewed.