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Ovid

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Venus favors the bold.


— Ovid


#favors #venus

What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.


— Ovid


#impulse #instinct #now #reason

What is without periods of rest will not endure.


— Ovid


#periods #rest #will #without

A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.


— Ovid


#fast #horse #horses #never #other

Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.


— Ovid


#been #delights #give #just #refuse

Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.


— Ovid


#endows #except #go #hearts #i

You can learn from anyone even your enemy.


— Ovid


#enemy #even #learn #you #your

You will go most safely in the middle.


— Ovid


#middle #most #safely #will #you

Where belief is painful we are slow to believe.


— Ovid


#believe #painful #slow #where

If you want to be loved, be lovable.


— Ovid


#lovable #loved #want #you






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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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