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
believe belief
Do not believe hastily.
art sick stronger
Tis not always in a physician's power to cure the sick; at times the disease is stronger than trained art.
art chance increase
It is no less a feat to keep what you have, than to increase it. In one there is chance, the other will be a work of art.
falling-in-love fall indolence
He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.
path middle-path moderation
Most safely shall you tread the middle path.
accumulation grows straws
There will grow from straws a mighty heap.
light advantage countenance
A pleasing countenance is no light advantage.
adversity valor hector
Who would have known of Hector, if Troy had been happy? The road to valor is built by adversity.
believe affliction unfortunate
Believe me, the gods spare the afflicted, and do not always oppress those who are unfortunate.
agriculture fields exhausted
A field becomes exhausted by constant tillage.
marriage society dowry
Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.
agents gains
Gain, acquired by many agents, soon accumulates.
fashion track style
I cannot keep track of all the vagaries of fashion, Every day, so it seems, brings in a different style.
ancestry birth
Birth and ancestry, and that which we have not ourselves achieved, we can scarcely call our own.