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 trust thinking
Love is too prone to trust. Would I could think My charges false and all too rashly made.
thinking opposites people
Some people think that because they do the opposite of what they are asked to do, they have initiative
thinking hands age
How little you know about the age you live in if you think that honey is sweeter than cash in hand
women thinking attractive
Every woman thinks herself attractive; even the plainest is satisfied with the charms she deems that she possesses.
love children thinking
Love is a naked child: do you think he has pockets for money?
time thinking people
The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late.
hate thinking hypocrisy
I hate a woman who offers herself because she ought to do so, and cold and dry thinks of her sewing when making love.
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.