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
opportunity lost
While I am speaking the opportunity is lost.
years feet age
Work while your strength and years permit you; crooked age will by-and-by come upon you with silent foot.
enemy
It's right to learn, even from the enemy.
venus and-love kind
Venus is kind to creatures as young as we;We know not what we do, and while we're youngWe have the right to live and love like gods.
gold age today
Today is truly the Golden Age: gold buys hornor, gold procures love
death men funeral
Man's last day must ever be awaited and none to be counted happy until his death, until his last funeral rites are paid.
death tears widows
We beg one hour of death, that neither she With widow's tears may live to bury me, Nor weeping I, with wither'd arms, may bear My breathless Baucis to the sepulchre.
experience
Put faith in one who's had experience.
love pain shells
As many as the shells that are on the shore, so many are the pains of love; the darts that wound are steeped in much poison.
love trust thinking
Love is too prone to trust. Would I could think My charges false and all too rashly made.
love flames water
If you would conquer Love, he must be fought At his first onslaught; sprinkle but a drop Of water, the new-kindled flame expires.
love brotherhood dignity
There is no brotherhood between love and dignity, Nor can they share the same abode.
love wind fire
Wind feeds the fire, and wind extinguishes: The flames are nourished by a gentle breeze, Yet, if it stronger grows, they sink and die.
love leisure bows
Destroy our leisure and you break love's bow.