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
love believe heart
Love is a believing creature.
marriage may months
It is ill to marry in the month of May.
death looks
Wherever I look there is nothing but the image of death.
time thinking people
The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late.
leadership born-leaders rewards
A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.
solitude obscurity wells
Well has he lived who has lived well in obscurity.
life herbs can-not
Ah me! love can not be cured by herbs.
life-changing inspiration desire
We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.
sea land sight
It is hope which makes the shipwrecked sailor strike out with his arms in the midst of the sea, though no land is in sight.
difficult-work excellence difficult
I attempt a difficult work; but there is no excellence without difficulty. [Lat., Ardua molimur; sed nulla nisi ardua virtus.]
want ifs
If you want to be loved, be loveable.
littles add bigs
Add little to little and there will be a big pile.
learning enemy
You can learn from anyone even your enemy.
men suffering he-man
Happy the man who can count his sufferings.