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
reality oil lamps
The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.
love love-is succeed
All love is vanquished by a succeeding love.
made giver
Those gifts are ever more precious which the giver has made precious.
ravens white swans
The raven once in snowy plumes was drest, White as the whitest dove's unsullied breast, Fair as the guardian of the Capitol, Soft as the swan; a large and lovely fowl His tongue, his prating tongue had changed him quite To sooty blackness from the purest white.
strong soul
Be bold, take courage... and be strong of soul
attitude light burden
Burdens become light when cheerfully borne.
courage men venture
Happy the man who ventures boldly to defend what he holds dear.
hate thinking hypocrisy
I hate a woman who offers herself because she ought to do so, and cold and dry thinks of her sewing when making love.
divinity breasts
There is a divinity within our breast.
food able appetite
Stop short of your appetite; eat less than you are able.
stupidity simplicity age
Simplicity, very rare in our age.
life herbs can-not
Ah me! love can not be cured by herbs.
want ifs
If you want to be loved, be loveable.
military today tomorrow
He, who is not prepared today, will be less so tomorrow.