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
dog boars
A boar is often held by a not-so-large dog.
time time-flies
Tempus fugit (time flies).
lying differences steps
Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery.
art character faithful
Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.
blame prison multitudes
Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.
punishment prison crime
The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.
love life fall
All human things hang on a slender thread, the strongest fall with a sudden crash.
success succeed glorious
If he did not succeed, he at least failed in a glorious undertaking.
swim hook unlikely
Keep thy hook always baited, for a fish lurks even in the most unlikely swim.
water small-pleasures pure
There is no small pleasure in pure water.
enemy
We can learn even from our enemies.
heart feelings details
Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.
children men promise
How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.
goal achievement tasks
I attempt an arduous task but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement