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
blessing may injury
An injury may prove a blessing.
lying home blow
The sea's vast depths lie open to the fish; Wherever the breezes blow the bird may fly; So to the brave man every land's a home.
destiny ebb-and-flow shapes
There is nothing constant in the universe. All ebb and flow, and every shape that's born, bears in its womb the seeds of change.
grief grieving rage
Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength.
gratitude men fellow-man
It is a pleasure appropriate to man, for him to save a fellow-man, and gratitude is acquired in no better way.
reality oil lamps
The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.
excellence difficulty
There is no excellence uncoupled with difficulties.
hate thinking hypocrisy
I hate a woman who offers herself because she ought to do so, and cold and dry thinks of her sewing when making love.
love love-is succeed
All love is vanquished by a succeeding love.
real real-friends names
Love will enter cloaked in friendship's name.
remembers-everything lovers remember
Lovers remember everything. [Lat., Meminerunt omnia amantes.]
falling-in-love men occupation
The man who falls in love chill find plenty of occupation.
desire way different
I am dragged along by a strange new force. Desire and reason are pulling in different directions. I see the right way and approve it, but follow the wrong.
inspirational wisdom stress
Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop