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
sleep soul care
Sleep ... peace of the soul, who puttest care to flight.
girl heart vanity
Dear to girls' hearts is their own beauty.
mistake sibling doors
Virtue and vice, evil and good, are siblings, or next-door neighbors, Easy to make mistakes, hard to tell them apart.
women thinking attractive
Every woman thinks herself attractive; even the plainest is satisfied with the charms she deems that she possesses.
women autumn wind
Women's words are as light as the doomed leaves whirling in autumn, Easily swept by the wind, easily drowned by the wave.
love children thinking
Love is a naked child: do you think he has pockets for money?
change things-change
everything changes, nothing perishes
god ifs wretched
If God be my friend, I cannot be wretched.
He who says o'er much I love not is in love.
two moderation extremes
Keep a mid course between two extremes.
beauty jewels light
Take the advice of light when you're looking at linens or jewels; Looking at faces or forms, take the advice of the day.
science sea land
Ere land and sea and the all-covering sky Were made, in the whole world the countenance Of nature was the same, all one, well named Chaos, a raw and undivided mass, Naught but a lifeless bulk, with warring seeds Of ill-joined elements compressed together.
sanity sane simulate
He who can simulate sanity will be sane.
people may forgetful
That you may please others you must be forgetful of yourself.