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
love majesty nor
Majesty and love do not consort well together, nor do they dwell in the same place.
brave favour and-love
Fortune and love favour the brave. [Lat., Audentum Forsque Venusque juvant.]
brave favour and-love
Fortune and love favour the brave. [Lat., Audentem Forsque Venusque juvant.]
love yield age
If thou wishest to put an end to love, attend to business (love yields to employment); then thou wilt be safe. [Lat., Qui finem quaeris amoris, (Cedit amor rebus) res age; tutus eris.]
love herbs amor
Ah me! love can not be cured by herbs. [Lat., Hei mihi! quod nullis amor est medicabilis herbis.]
love soldier warfare
Every lover is a soldier. (Love is a warfare.) [Lat., Militat omnis amans.]
love may beloved
That you may be beloved, be amiable.
love love-is affair
Love is an affair of credulity.
love loathing ends
Excessive love in loathing ever ends.
life love-is
Love is a credulous thing.
life love-is anxious
Love is a thing full of anxious fears.
skills making-love unending
Skill makes love unending.
famous-love fighting love-is
Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him, Easy-going enough once you acknowledge his power.
self-love understanding would-be
If it were in my power, I would be wiser; but a newly felt power carries me off in spite of myself; love leads me one way, my understanding another.