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Ovid

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Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.


— Ovid


#habit #more #nothing #powerful #than

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


— Ovid


#counts #everywhere #fortune #friendships #honors

Often they benefit who suffer wrong.


— Ovid


#often #suffer #who #wrong

The bold adventurer succeeds the best.


— Ovid


#best #bold #succeeds

The cause is hidden; the effect is visible to all.


— Ovid


#effect #hidden #visible

The gods behold all righteous actions.


— Ovid


#behold #gods #righteous

The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late.


— Ovid


#good #i #i think #i was born #late

The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.


— Ovid


#ever #fields #heavier #others

The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.


— Ovid


#burns #clean #lamp #oil #wick

The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.


— Ovid


#even #experienced #man #sea #shipwreck






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Did you know about Ovid?

The chronology of these early works is not secure; tentative dates however have been establiOvidd by scholars. 19–20). 4.

Ovid was also the author of several smaller pieces the Remedia Amoris the Medicamina Faciei Femineae and the long curse-poem Ibis. He is considered a master of the elegiac couplet and is traditionally ranked alongside Virgil and Horace as one of the three canonic poets of Latin literature. He is also well known for the Fasti about the Roman calendar and the Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto two collections of poems written in exile on the Black Sea.

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