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
thinking hands age
How little you know about the age you live in if you think that honey is sweeter than cash in hand
years taught prison
Where crime is taught from early years, it becomes a part of nature.
ocean sea ships
We have ploughed the vast ocean in a fragile bark.
habit pursuit
Pursuits become habits.
military inspiration love-is
Love is a kind of military service
fear men wish
Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.
evil form thousand
There are a thousand forms of evil; there will be a thousand remedies.
stars eye men
All other creatures look down toward the earth, but man was given a face so that might turn his eyes toward the stars and his gaze upon the sky.
military coward wish
It is the act of a coward to wish for death.
envy vices creeps
Envy, the meanest of vices, creeps on the ground like a serpent.
matter easy conversation
In an easy matter. Anybody can be eloquent.
wake-up genius difficulty
Difficulty is what wakes up the genius.
doe longing yearning
One does not yearn for that which is easily acquired.
broken bows leisure
Take away leisure and Cupid's bow is broken