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
passion muse cupid
When I was from Cupid's passions free, my Muse was mute and wrote no elegy.
gratitude men fellow-man
It is a pleasure appropriate to man, for him to save a fellow-man, and gratitude is acquired in no better way.
life want lovable
If you want to be loved, be lovable.
life falling-in-love men
Let the man who does not wish to be idle, fall in love.
blessing may injury
An injury may prove a blessing.
agriculture fields cultivation
Time spent in the cultivation of the fields passes very pleasantly.
friendship years envy
Live without envy, spend your peaceful years Unknown to fame, and choose your peers for friends.
quality workmanship quality-in-business
Make the workmanship surpass the materials.
perseverance pain endure
Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.
eye sight soul
Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.
grief grieving rage
Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength.
destiny ebb-and-flow shapes
There is nothing constant in the universe. All ebb and flow, and every shape that's born, bears in its womb the seeds of change.
inspirational life positive
Change is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.
falling-in-love men occupation
The man who falls in love chill find plenty of occupation.