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.
habit pursuit
Pursuits become habits. [Lat., Abeunt studia in mores.]
powerful habit customs
Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.
habit made customs
Habit had made the custom.
art and-love habit
Everyone is desirous of his own pursuits, and loves To spend his time in his accustomed art.
habit pursuit
Pursuits become habits.
evil habit results
These are the evils which result from gossiping habits.
routine trouble habitual
Let what is irksome become habitual, no more will it trouble you.
humor stronger habit
Nothing is stronger than habit.
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.