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
sick mind suffering
The mind is sicker than the sick body; in contemplation of its sufferings it becomes hopeless. [Lat., Corpore sed mens est aegro magis aegra; malique In circumspectu stat sine fine sui.]
mind suffering body
The mind ill at ease, the body suffers also.
blow suffering proximity
We suffer by our proximity. [Who get a blow intended for another.]
punishment suffering minus
It is less to suffer punishment than to deserve it. [Lat., Estque pati poenas quam meruisse minus.]
suffering benefits
Often they benefit who suffer wrong.
men suffering he-man
Happy the man who can count his sufferings.
mind suffering body
The mind grows sicker than the body in contemplation of it's suffering.
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.]