About Ovid: Publius Ovidius Naso was a Roman poet who lived during the reign of Augustus. He was a contemporary of Virgil and Horace.
He whom all hate all wish to see destroyed.
Often they benefit who suffer wrong.
Let what is irksome become habitual, no more will it trouble you.
Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.
A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.
I am the poet of the poor, because I was poor when I loved; since I could not give gifts, I gave words.
All other creatures look down toward the earth, but man was given a face so that might turn his eyes toward the stars and his gaze upon the sky.
He loved a lifeless thing and he was utterly and hopelessly wretched.
Saepe creat molles aspera spina rosas" - "Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses
There is a certain pleasure in weeping
Barbarus hic ego sum, quia non intelligor illis. (In this place I am a barbarian, because men do not understand me.)
Anything cracked will shatter at a touch.
There is a god within us.
Beauty is a fragile gift.
Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.
Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.
Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.
Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish.
Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.
The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool.
Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.
