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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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I see better things, and approve, but I follow worse.
There is a divinity within our breast.
It is lawful to be taught by an enemy.
The silent countenance often speaks.
The ungovernable passion for wealth.
The result justifies the deed.
What, however, is my fault? Unless to have played can be called a fault, unless it can be called a fault to have loved.
So long as you are secure you will count many friends; if your life becomes clouded you will be alone.
Id quoque, quod vivam, munus habere dei.
Fortune and Love befriend the bold.
When I read what I’ve written, I’m often abased;
So I can't live either without you or with you.
Sleep, rest of nature, O sleep, most gentle of the divinities, peace of the soul, thou at whose presence care disappears, who soothest hearts wearied with daily employments, and makest them strong again for labour!
Our charms depart all on their own, so pluck the bloom.
Leave her alone. A fallow field soon shows its worth,
I’ve written much; but what I thought to blame
We take no pleasure in permitted joys.
Then the omnipotent Father with his thunder made Olympus tremble, and from Ossa hurled Pelion.
Love is a thing full of anxious fears.
Drops of water hollow out a stone.