About Ovid: Publius Ovidius Naso was a Roman poet who lived during the reign of Augustus. He was a contemporary of Virgil and Horace.
The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.
We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.
Tears at times have the weight of speech.
What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless.
A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.
Either do not attempt at all, or go through with it.
The burden which is well borne becomes light.
Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
You can learn from anyone even your enemy.
Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.
I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement.
Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.
What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.
To feel our ills is one thing, but to cure them is another.
Against the bold, daring is unsafe.
Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be fish.
Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery.
In an easy matter. Anybody can be eloquent.
Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.
The gods behold all righteous actions.
The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.
