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
routine trouble habitual
Let what is irksome become habitual, no more will it trouble you.
envy fields crops
The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.
prayer coward fortune
The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.
gold honour highest
Gold will buy the highest honours; and gold will purchase love.
mind suffering body
The mind grows sicker than the body in contemplation of it's suffering.
love kings dominion
Love's dominion, like a kings, admits of no partition.
may crime penalties
The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal.
cures thousand
A thousand ills require a thousand cures.
safe pleasure
A safe pleasure is a tame pleasure.
voice request moved
Even the gods are moved by the voice of entreaty.
pleasant
Pleasant words are the food of love.
speech eloquent
Only begin, and you will become eloquent of yourself.
opportunity hands fruit
Pluck with quick hand the fruit that passes.
wind calumny slander
Calumny ever pursues the great, even as the winds hurl themselves on high places.