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
sick mind bears
The sick mind can not bear anything harsh. [Lat., Mensque pati durum sustinet aegra nihil.]
punishment bears sin
Indulgent gods, grant me to sin once with impunity. That is sufficient. Let a second offence bear its punishment.
sweet medicine bears
We do not bear sweets; we are recruited by a bitter potion.
heart sick bears
When the heart is sick it cannot bear the slightest annoyance.
bears able misfortunes-of-others
Consider the misfortunes of others, and you will be the better able to bear your own.
enemy rivals bears
Bear patiently with a rival.
punishment bears
Let those who have deserved their punishment, bear it patiently. [Lat., Aequo animo poenam, qui meruere, ferant.]
bears prosperity easy
It is not easy to bear prosperity unruffled.
sorrow one-day bears
Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.
night ugly woman
At night there is no such thing as an ugly woman
borne
The burden which is well borne becomes light.
whether women
Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.
believe
He who can believe himself well, will be well.
darkness fault hid night woman
Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.