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
deserved punishment smaller suffer
It is a smaller thing to suffer punishment than to have deserved it
punishment bears sin
Indulgent gods, grant me to sin once with impunity. That is sufficient. Let a second offence bear its punishment.
pain grieving punishment
With patience bear what pains you have deserved, Grieve, if you will, over what's unmerited.
pain punishment faults
I am an exile; but it is the fault that pains; The punishment is nought; that it is deserved Is all the pain.
punishment bitterness delay
Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.
punishment prison crime
The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.
punishment bears
Let those who have deserved their punishment, bear it patiently. [Lat., Aequo animo poenam, qui meruere, ferant.]
punishment suffering minus
It is less to suffer punishment than to deserve it. [Lat., Estque pati poenas quam meruisse minus.]
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.]