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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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Thou fool, what is sleep but the image of death? Fate will give an eternal rest.
Time glides by with constant movement, not unlike a stream. For neither can a stream stay its course, nor can the fleeting hour.
Heavens! what thick darkness pervades the minds of men.
And yet he feels the father in the king.
Let him who loves, where love success may find,
Birth and ancestry, and that which we have not ourselves achieved, we can scarcely call our own.
Suppose the chariot of the sun were given you, what would you do? (Apollo's question to Phaeton)
Shameful it is to say, yet the common herd, if only we admit the truth, value friendships by their profit.
Either you pursue or push, O Sisyphus, the stone destined to keep rolling.
We two [Deucalion and Pyrrha, after the deluge] form a multitude.
How different from the present man was the youth of earlier days!
We are slow to believe what if believed would hurt our feelings.
We do not bear sweets; we are recruited by a bitter potion.
I see and approve better things, I follow the worse.
What follows I flee; what flees I ever pursue.
All things change, nothing perishes.
Fortune and love favour the brave.
Water belongs to us all. Nature did not make the sun one person's property, nor air, nor water, cool and clear.
Favour assists and cheers the author’s art,
Ah me! how easy it is (how much all have experienced it) to indulge in brave words in another person's trouble.