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
true-love famous-love inspirational-love
Fortune and love favor the brave.
life want lovable
If you want to be loved, be lovable.
I flee who chases me and chase who flees me.
venus favors flirtation
Venus favors the bold.
adventure succeed life-adventure
The bold adventurer succeeds the best.
food able appetite
Stop short of your appetite; eat less than you are able.
positive dare
Happy is he who dares courageously to defend what he loves.
wine wings worry
When there is plenty of wine, sorrow and worry take wing.
desire coveting strive
We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.
sleep wine insomnia
Time, motion and wine cause sleep.
leadership running horse
The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.
flower rose ancestry
The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.
medicine giving care
Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.
pain grief sadness
What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless.