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
punishment prison crime
The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.
love life fall
All human things hang on a slender thread, the strongest fall with a sudden crash.
success succeed glorious
If he did not succeed, he at least failed in a glorious undertaking.
swim hook unlikely
Keep thy hook always baited, for a fish lurks even in the most unlikely swim.
water small-pleasures pure
There is no small pleasure in pure water.
enemy
We can learn even from our enemies.
heart feelings details
Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.
children men promise
How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.
goal achievement tasks
I attempt an arduous task but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement
giving safety way
Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe.
water stones dripping
Dripping water hollows out a stone
death new-beginnings men
Nothing retains its form; new shapes from old. Nature, the great inventor, ceaselessly contrives. In all creation, be assured, there is no death - no death, but only change and innovation; what we men call birth is but a different new beginning; death is but to cease to be the same. Perhaps this may have moved to that, and that to this, yet still the sum of things remains the same.
destiny men may
Thy destiny is only that of man, but thy aspirations may be those of a god.
envy feds hard
Love that is fed by jealousy dies hard.