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
prone
All things can corrupt when minds are prone to evil.
relaxation periods endure
What is without periods of rest will not endure.
sorrow one-day bears
Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.
promise rich
Anyone can be rich in promises.
learning enemy
You can learn from anyone even your enemy.
deeds results justify
The result justifies the deed.
boredom fats feds
Love fed fat soon turns to boredom.
excellence difficulty
There is no excellence uncoupled with difficulties.
divinity breasts
There is a divinity within our breast.
giver acceptable
Those gifts are ever the most acceptable which the giver makes precious. [Lat., Acceptissima semper munera sunt auctor quae pretiosa facit.]
envy vices creeps
Envy, the meanest of vices, creeps on the ground like a serpent.
deeds crime absent
Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination. [Lat., Factis ignoscite nostris Si scelus ingenio scitis abesse meo.]
facts fiction speak
I shall speak facts; but some will say I deal in fiction.
nymphs echoes babbling
That tuneful nymph, the babbling Echo.