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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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Time, the devourer of all things.
My name shall never be forgotten.
Nothing is stronger than habit.
Thus, while the mute creation downward bend
No way is impassable to virtue!
There is a god within us.
Her head was bare;
Well doth he live who lives retired, and keeps
For those things which were done either by our fathers, or ancestors, and in which we ourselves had no share, we can scarcely call our own.
The workmanship excelled the materials.
He is beautiful even to enemy eyes.
Chaos, a rough and unordered mass.
Who is allowed to sin, sins less.
You will be safest in the middle.
Habit makes all things bearable.
The gods have their own rules.
God himself favors the brave.
Time that devours all things.
Take this at least, this last advice, my son:
Nor can one easily find among many thousands a single man who considers virtue its own reward. The very glory of a good deed, if it lacks reward, affects them not; unrewarded uprightness brings them regret. Nothing but profit is prized.