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
change things-change
everything changes, nothing perishes
god ifs wretched
If God be my friend, I cannot be wretched.
He who says o'er much I love not is in love.
two moderation extremes
Keep a mid course between two extremes.
beauty jewels light
Take the advice of light when you're looking at linens or jewels; Looking at faces or forms, take the advice of the day.
science sea land
Ere land and sea and the all-covering sky Were made, in the whole world the countenance Of nature was the same, all one, well named Chaos, a raw and undivided mass, Naught but a lifeless bulk, with warring seeds Of ill-joined elements compressed together.
sanity sane simulate
He who can simulate sanity will be sane.
people may forgetful
That you may please others you must be forgetful of yourself.
believe belief
Do not believe hastily.
art sick stronger
Tis not always in a physician's power to cure the sick; at times the disease is stronger than trained art.
art chance increase
It is no less a feat to keep what you have, than to increase it. In one there is chance, the other will be a work of art.
falling-in-love fall indolence
He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.
path middle-path moderation
Most safely shall you tread the middle path.
accumulation grows straws
There will grow from straws a mighty heap.