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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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An evil life is a kind of death.
Some wounds grow worse beneath the surgeon's hand;
Ants never head for an empty granary:
No fairer law in all the land
The good of other times let people state;
The rest of the crowd were friends of my fortune, not of me.
To wish for death is a coward's part.
The brave find a home in every land.
Time is generally the best medicine.
Good-bye to the lies of the poets.
Time, motion and wine cause sleep.
A spirit superior to every weapon.
The mind alone can not be exiled.
Love yields to business. If you seek a way out of love, be busy; you'll be safe then.
Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.
Ere sea, and land and heaven’s vault were made,
The deed I intend is great,
He mounted and reclined on the nearer side, his swollen penis harder than a horn, and meanwhile pulling up the bottom edge of the garment; there he met legs that bristled with thick rough hair.
Passion persuades me one way, reason another. I see the better and approve it, but I follow the worse.
Say that I live, but in such wise that I would not live.