About Ovid: Publius Ovidius Naso was a Roman poet who lived during the reign of Augustus. He was a contemporary of Virgil and Horace.
An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.
Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.
A man is sorry to be honest for nothing.
Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.
Alas! how difficult it is not to betray one's guilt by one's looks.
There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
You will go most safely in the middle.
Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.
Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.
Where belief is painful we are slow to believe.
Use the occasion, for it passes swiftly.
Give way to your opponent; thus will you gain the crown of victory.
The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.
What is without periods of rest will not endure.
He who can believe himself well, will be well.
It is the poor man who'll ever count his flock.
The cause is hidden; the effect is visible to all.
The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.
Most safely shall you tread the middle path.
How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.
People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.
