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
safe pleasure
A safe pleasure is a tame pleasure.
voice request moved
Even the gods are moved by the voice of entreaty.
pleasant
Pleasant words are the food of love.
speech eloquent
Only begin, and you will become eloquent of yourself.
opportunity hands fruit
Pluck with quick hand the fruit that passes.
wind calumny slander
Calumny ever pursues the great, even as the winds hurl themselves on high places.
stars men heaven
God gave man an upright countenance to survey the heavens, and to look upward to the stars.
sleep soul care
Sleep ... peace of the soul, who puttest care to flight.
girl heart vanity
Dear to girls' hearts is their own beauty.
mistake sibling doors
Virtue and vice, evil and good, are siblings, or next-door neighbors, Easy to make mistakes, hard to tell them apart.
women thinking attractive
Every woman thinks herself attractive; even the plainest is satisfied with the charms she deems that she possesses.
women autumn wind
Women's words are as light as the doomed leaves whirling in autumn, Easily swept by the wind, easily drowned by the wave.
men care too-much
Men should not care too much for good looks; neglect is becoming.
love children thinking
Love is a naked child: do you think he has pockets for money?