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
I see and approve better things, but follow worse.
god-within-us
There is a God within us, and we glow when He stirs us.
men soul mind
It is the mind that makes the man, and our vigour is in our immortal soul.
men risk safe
Daring is not safe against daring men.
battle fallen foe
The battle is over when the foe has fallen.
victory ruins
This victory will be your I ruin.
donors regard acceptable
Those presents are the most acceptable which are enhanced by our regard for the donor.
guests
To dismiss a guest is a more ungracious act than not to admit him at all.
giving manners polish
To have properly studied the liberal sciences gives a polish to our manners, and removes all awkwardness.
loss gains prove
Trivial losses often prove great gains.
past remembrance doe
Twice does he live who can enjoy the remembrance of the past.
violence break cracked
Very slight violence will break that which has once been cracked.
hate battle hawks
We hate the hawk because he ever lives in battle.
powerful united
Things which of themselves avail nothing, when united become powerful.