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Ovid

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About Ovid

Publius Ovidius Naso, known in English as Ovid, was a Roman poet who lived during the reign of Augustus. He was a younger contemporary of Virgil and Horace, with whom he is often ranked as one of the three canonical poets of Latin literature. The Imperial scholar Quintilian considered him to be the last of the Latin love elegists. Although Ovid enjoyed enormous popularity during his lifetime, the emperor Augustus exiled him to Tomis, the capital of the newly organized province of Moesia, on the…

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Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.
Ovid Women View
Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.
Ovid Women View
Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.
Ovid Truth View
Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.
Ovid Sympathy View
Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.
Ovid Strength View
Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength.
Ovid Strength View
Fair peace becomes men ferocious anger belongs to beasts.
Ovid Peace View

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Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.
Ovid Nature View
First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, 'I believe,' three times.
Ovid Morning View
Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships the poor man everywhere lies low.
Ovid Money View
Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.
Ovid Medical View
All love is vanquished by a succeeding love.
Ovid Love View
Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.
Ovid Hope View
My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.
Ovid Hope View
Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.
Ovid Health View
Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.
Ovid Happiness View
Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.
Ovid Good View
Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.
Ovid Fear View
Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.
Ovid Fear View
Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.
Ovid Death View