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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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Away from me, far away, ye austere fair!
When time has assuaged the wounds of the mind, he who unseasonably reminds us of them, opens them afresh.
God gave man an upright countenance to survey the heavens, and to look upward to the stars.
Luck affects everything; let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it, there will be a fish.
Ah, majesty and love go ill together,
Wherever you look there is nothing but the image of death.
Every one wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.
Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
There is a God within us, and we glow when he stirs us.
Every man should stay within his own fortune.
The love of fame usually spurs on the mind.
Aequo animo poenam, qui meruere, ferunt. (They bear punishment with equanimity who have earned it.)
Fool, what is sleep but the likeness of icy death? The fates shall give us a long period of rest.
It is not safe to despise what Love commands. He reigns supreme, and rules the mighty gods.
Ferreus assiduo consumitur anulus usu. (The iron ring is worn out by constant use.)
Time glides by, and we grow old with the silent years; and the days flee away with no restraining curb.
Thus I am not able to exist either with you or without you; and I seem not to know my own wishes.
Resist beginnings: it is too late to employ medicine when the evil has grown strong by inveterate habit.
As God is propitiated by the blood of a hundred bulls, so also is he by the smallest offering of incense.
If Jupiter hurled his thunderbolt as often as men sinned, he would soon be out of thunderbolts.