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
character envy way
Envy, slothful vice, Never makes its way in lofty characters, But, like the skulking viper, creeps and crawls Close to the ground.
jealousy wind envy
Envy assails the noblest: the winds howl around the highest peaks.
envy vices creeps
Envy, the meanest of vices, creeps on the ground like a serpent.
envy feds hard
Love that is fed by jealousy dies hard.
envy cease
Envy feeds on the living. It ceases when they are dead.
envy genius depreciate
Envy depreciates the genius of the great Homer.
envy fields crops
The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.
death men envy
Envy feeds on the living, after death it rests, then the honor of a man protects him.
friendship years envy
Live without envy, spend your peaceful years Unknown to fame, and choose your peers for friends.
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.