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
men may causes
In an easy cause any man may be eloquent.
causes results known
The cause is hidden, but the result is known. [Lat., Causa latet: vis est notissima.]
silence causes silent
Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.
causes effects visible
The cause is hidden; the effect is visible to all.
causes enough easy
In an easy cause anyone can be eloquent; the slightest strength is enough to break what is already shattered.
unhappy causes prisoner
Tis base to plead the unhappy prisoner's cause, With eloquence that's bought.
desire causes intense
What is allowed us is disagreeable, what is denied us causes us intense desire.
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.
anger becomes belongs fair ferocious peace
Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts.
death frown sneer worried
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.