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Publius Ovidius Naso (20 March 43 BC – 17 AD) was a Roman poet, commonly known to the English-speaking world as Ovid. Along with Virgil and Horace, Ovid is one of the three canonical poets of Latin literature, generally considered the greatest master of the elegiac couplet.
Also known as: Publius Ovidius Naso
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Jupiter from on high laughs at the perjuries of lovers.
Often a silent face has voice and words.
If you give up your quiet life, the bow of Cupid will lose its power.
Tis hard, I admit, yet virtue aims at what is hard, and gratitude for such a service will be all the greater.
Let the man who does not wish to be idle fall in love!
By arts, sails, and oars, ships are rapidly moved; arts move the light chariot, and establish love.
Money nowadays is money; money brings office; money gains friends; everywhere the poor man is down.
Truly now is the golden age; the highest honour comes by means of gold; by gold love is procured.
Nor is there any law more just, than that he who has plotted death shall perish by his own plot.
Heaven makes sport of human affairs, and the present hour gives no sure promise of the next.
If thou wishest to put an end to love, attend to business (love yields to employment); then thou wilt be safe.
By night are blemishes hid, and every fault is forgiven: that hour makes any woman fair.
It is easy for a woman to be good, when all that hinders her from being so is removed.
In time the unmanageable young oxen come to the plough; in time the horses are taught to endure the restraining bit.
A wound will perhaps become tolerable with length of time; but wounds which are raw shudder at the touch of the hands.
The judge's duty is to inquire about the time, as well as the facts.
Majesty and love do not well agree, nor do they live together.
A mind conscious of right laughs at the falsehoods of rumour.
There is a God within us and intercourse with heaven.
The fault is not of the man but of the place.