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Ovid

poet, writer, mythographer, elegist

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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 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 organised province of Moesia, on the Black Sea, where he remained for the last nine or ten years of his life. Ovid himself attributed his banishment to a carmen et error, but his reluctance to disclose specifics has resulted in much speculation among scholars.

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Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships; the poor man everywhere lies low.

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Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.

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In all creation nothing endures, all is in endless flux, each wandering shape a pilgrim passing by.

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My vengeance is my guilt

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Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts.

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Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.

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Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.

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First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, 'I believe,' three times.

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Enhance and intensify one’s vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.

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Time is generally the best doctor.

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What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps; with it alone, she lives.

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As wave is driven by wave

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As wave is driven by wave

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Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.

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Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.

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Time is generally the best doctor.

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Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.

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First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, 'I believe,' three times.

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All love is vanquished by a succeeding love.

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I am the poet of the poor, because I was poor when I loved; since I could not give gifts, I gave words.

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Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

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Habits change into character.

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Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.

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If you want to be loved, be lovable.

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Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.

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Beauty is a fragile gift.

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Brass shines with constant usage, a beautiful dress needs wearing,

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Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish.

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