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
darkness fault hid night woman
Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.
whether women
Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.
borne
The burden which is well borne becomes light.
prone
All things can corrupt when minds are prone to evil.
leadership running horse
The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.
dare defend
Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.
chance expect hook pool
Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.
long rust talent
Great talents, by the rust of long disuse, Grow lethargic and shrink from what they were.
running horse catching-on
A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
patience hours
Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.
marriage love-is coward
Love is no assignment for cowards.
life-changing persistence water
Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.
hope
My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope. [Lat., Et res non semper, spes mihi semper adest.]
pain hate tough
Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.