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
brave favour and-love
Fortune and love favour the brave. [Lat., Audentum Forsque Venusque juvant.]
brave favour and-love
Fortune and love favour the brave. [Lat., Audentem Forsque Venusque juvant.]
indulge-in brave trouble
Ah me! how easy it is (how much all have experienced it) to indulge in brave words in another person's trouble. [Lat., Hei mihi, quam facile est (quamvis hic contigit omnes), Alterius lucta fortia verba loqui!]
home land brave
The brave find a home in every land.
brave bravery favors
God himself favors the brave.
strength giving bravery
Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.
country men brave
The whole earth is the brave man's country. [Lat., Omne solum forti patria est.]
deserved punishment smaller suffer
It is a smaller thing to suffer punishment than to have deserved it
beauty dark judgment wine
Judgment of beauty can err, what with the wine and the dark
chance expect hook pool
Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.
field gives
Take rest; a field that has rested gives a beautiful crop.
dare defend
Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.
prone
All things can corrupt when minds are prone to evil.
quality workmanship quality-in-business
Make the workmanship surpass the materials.