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
storm danger bark
My bark, once struck by the fury of the storm, dreads again to approach the place of danger.
mean knives trying
First try all other means, but if the wound Heal not, then use the knife, lest to the clean From the diseased the canker spread.
kindness long thanks
No thanks attach to a kindness long deferred.
pain grieving punishment
With patience bear what pains you have deserved, Grieve, if you will, over what's unmerited.
art and-love habit
Everyone is desirous of his own pursuits, and loves To spend his time in his accustomed art.
simple joy care
There is no pleasure pure and simple, and some care always comes to mar our joys.
virtue fortune
Rare is the virtue that's not ruled by Fortune, That stands unshaken even when Fortune flees.
betrayal fall winning
She who resists as though she would not win, By her own treason falls an easy prey.
pain choke breasts
Suppressed pain chokes us; in our breasts It surges, adding ever to its strength.
littles leisure jupiter
Jupiter has no leisure to attend to little things.
pain punishment faults
I am an exile; but it is the fault that pains; The punishment is nought; that it is deserved Is all the pain.
pain joy sorrow
There is some joy in weeping. For our tears Fill up the cup, then wash our pain away.
joy pleasure forbidden
We take no pleasure in permitted joys, But what's forbidden is more keenly sought.
character men shapes
There are as many characters in men As there are shapes in nature.