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
My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.
affects chance expect hook stream
Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish.
beauty dark judgment wine
Judgment of beauty can err, what with the wine and the dark
brave favour and-love
Fortune and love favour the brave. [Lat., Audentum Forsque Venusque juvant.]
quality workmanship quality-in-business
Make the workmanship surpass the materials.
character habit
Habits change into character.
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.
If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.
prone
All things can corrupt when minds are prone to evil.
deserved punishment smaller suffer
It is a smaller thing to suffer punishment than to have deserved it
dare fear sins truly
If she is chaste when there is no fear of detection, she is truly chaste; she who sins not because she dare not, does the sin
lying safety moderation
Safety lies in the middle course. [Lat., Medio tutissimus ibis.]