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
people
In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are.
happiness people joy
Few people want the pleasures they are free to take.
confidence people claims
People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.
thinking opposites people
Some people think that because they do the opposite of what they are asked to do, they have initiative
squinting people
By looking at squinting people you learn to squint.
people may forgetful
That you may please others you must be forgetful of yourself.
time thinking people
The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late.
play people kind
In our play we reveal what kind of people we are.
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.