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 habit
Habits change into character.
habit pursuit
Pursuits become habits. [Lat., Abeunt studia in mores.]
powerful habit customs
Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.
habit made customs
Habit had made the custom.
art and-love habit
Everyone is desirous of his own pursuits, and loves To spend his time in his accustomed art.
habit pursuit
Pursuits become habits.
evil habit results
These are the evils which result from gossiping habits.
routine trouble habitual
Let what is irksome become habitual, no more will it trouble you.
humor stronger habit
Nothing is stronger than habit.
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.