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
time years
Nothing is swifter than our years.
time all-things
Time is the devourer of all things.
time years reign
Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.
time return wave
Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
time medicine
Temporis ars medicina fere est. Time is generally the best medicine.
time all-things
Tempus edax rerum. Time that devours all things.
horse time oxen
Tempore difficiles veniunt ad aratra juvenci; Tempore lenta pati frena docentur equi. In time the unmanageable young oxen come to the plough; in time the horses are taught to endure the restraining bit.
life god-life gift-from-god
This also, that I live, I consider a gift of God.
life stealing
Let love steal in disguised as friendship.
confidence people claims
People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.
believe men jupiter
Gifts, believe me, captivate both men and Gods, Jupiter himself was won over and appeased by gifts.
thankful gratitude thanks
Thanks are justly due for boons unbought
patience one-day unhappiness
Perfer et obdura; dolor hic tibi proderit olim. Have patience and endure; this unhappiness will one day be beneficial.
men deeds rewards
Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.