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
light advantage countenance
A pleasing countenance is no light advantage.
adversity valor hector
Who would have known of Hector, if Troy had been happy? The road to valor is built by adversity.
believe affliction unfortunate
Believe me, the gods spare the afflicted, and do not always oppress those who are unfortunate.
agriculture fields exhausted
A field becomes exhausted by constant tillage.
marriage society dowry
Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.
agents gains
Gain, acquired by many agents, soon accumulates.
fashion track style
I cannot keep track of all the vagaries of fashion, Every day, so it seems, brings in a different style.
ancestry birth
Birth and ancestry, and that which we have not ourselves achieved, we can scarcely call our own.
anger hands weak
Anger assists hands however weak.
character looks delight
When the character's right, looks are a greater delight.
believe men believe-in-me
Presents, believe me, seduce both men and gods.
inspirational mean ends
The end doesn't justify the means.
pain sadism pleasure
Pleasure is sweetest when 'tis paid for by another's pain.
jupiter lovers perjury
Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.