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
pleasant
Pleasant words are the food of love.
cures thousand
A thousand ills require a thousand cures.
granted pleasure duty
The pleasure that is granted to me from a sense of duty ceases to be a pleasure at all.
poetry mind fine
Poetry comes fine-spun from a mind at peace.
daring unsafe
Against the bold, daring is unsafe.
mistake sibling doors
Virtue and vice, evil and good, are siblings, or next-door neighbors, Easy to make mistakes, hard to tell them apart.
obscurity wells
He who has lived obscurely and quietly has lived well.
cures feels one-thing
To feel our ills is one thing, but to cure them is another.
jewels simplicity found
Simplicity is a jewel rarely found.
love-and-friendship dignity share
Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.
keeping-promises broken-promises kept-promises
Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned.
sick mind suffering
The mind is sicker than the sick body; in contemplation of its sufferings it becomes hopeless. [Lat., Corpore sed mens est aegro magis aegra; malique In circumspectu stat sine fine sui.]
sick mind bears
The sick mind can not bear anything harsh. [Lat., Mensque pati durum sustinet aegra nihil.]
milk produce crops
Our neighbour's crop is always more fruitful and his cattle produce more milk than our own.