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
memories rose gone
When the roses are gone, nothing is left but the thorn.
happiness people joy
Few people want the pleasures they are free to take.
beauty depressing years
A good disposition is a virtue in itself, and it is lasting; the burden of the years cannot depress it, and love that is founded on it endures to the end.
beauty wine dark
Judgement of beauty can err, what with the wine and the dark.
sleep insomnia soul
Sleep, rest of things, O pleasing Deity, Peace of the soul, which cares dost crucify, Weary bodies refresh and mollify.
men appearance neglect
Neglect of appearance becomes men.
winning appearance disposition
When disposition wins us, the features please.
men naps alcohol
Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts. Finley Peter Dunne There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.
wealth enough posse
Although they posses enough, and more than enough still they yearn for more.
education teacher mind
Only the mind cannot be sent into exile.
courage conquer all-things
Courage conquers all things.
happiness sunshine years
If you count the sunny and the cloudy days of the whole year, you will find that the sunshine predominates.
courage light fit
Leve fit quod bene fertur onus. The burden which is well borne becomes light.
change things-change things-have-changed
All things change, nothing perishes.