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
sleep soul care
Sleep ... peace of the soul, who puttest care to flight.
poetry mind fine
Poetry comes fine-spun from a mind at peace.
daring unsafe
Against the bold, daring is unsafe.
fighting arms forget
The wounded gladiator forswears all fighting, but soon forgetting his former wound resumes his arms.
mistake sibling doors
Virtue and vice, evil and good, are siblings, or next-door neighbors, Easy to make mistakes, hard to tell them apart.
way disposition treats
Treat a thousand dispositions in a thousand ways.
giving cows fields
The crop always seems better in our neighbor's field, and our neighbor's cow gives more milk.
obscurity wells
He who has lived obscurely and quietly has lived well.
funny buying buying-something
A woman is always buying something.
destiny men may
Thy destiny is only that of man, but thy aspirations may be those of a god.
cures feels one-thing
To feel our ills is one thing, but to cure them is another.
jewels simplicity found
Simplicity is a jewel rarely found.
love-and-friendship dignity share
Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.
bears able misfortunes-of-others
Consider the misfortunes of others, and you will be the better able to bear your own.