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
character habit
Habits change into character.
character envy way
Envy, slothful vice, Never makes its way in lofty characters, But, like the skulking viper, creeps and crawls Close to the ground.
character men shapes
There are as many characters in men As there are shapes in nature.
art character faithful
Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.
character looks delight
When the character's right, looks are a greater delight.
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.
brave favour and-love
Fortune and love favour the brave. [Lat., Audentum Forsque Venusque juvant.]
quality workmanship quality-in-business
Make the workmanship surpass the materials.
borne
The burden which is well borne becomes light.