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
beauty dark judgment wine
Judgment of beauty can err, what with the wine and the dark
beauty disadvantages countenance
A pleasing countenance is no slight disadvantage. [Lat., Auxilium non leve vultus habet.]
beauty beautiful perfect
I would that you were either less beautiful, or less corrupt. Such perfect beauty does not suit such imperfect morals. [Lat., Aut formosa fores minus, aut minus improba vellem. Non facit ad mores tam bona forma malos.]
beauty frail
Beauty is a frail good.
beauty faces advantage
A pleasing face is no small advantage.
beauty depressing years
A good disposition is a virtue in itself, and it is lasting; the burden of the years cannot depress it, and love that is founded on it endures to the end.
beauty wine dark
Judgement of beauty can err, what with the wine and the dark.
beauty years frail
A frail gift is beauty, which grows less as time draws on, and is devoured by its own years.
beauty modesty strife
Great is the strife between beauty and modesty.
beauty heaven boast
Beauty is heaven's gift, and how few can boast of beauty.
beauty doors age
Beauty, if you do not open your doors, takes age from lack of use.
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.
beauty fragile
Beauty is a fragile gift.
night ugly woman
At night there is no such thing as an ugly woman