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Ovid

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Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.


— Ovid


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Fortune and love favor the brave.


— Ovid


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Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.


— Ovid


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Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.


— Ovid


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If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.


— Ovid


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Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.


— Ovid


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Beauty is a fragile gift.


— Ovid


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A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.


— Ovid


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Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.


— Ovid


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First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, 'I believe,' three times.


— Ovid


#arise #before #believe #every #first






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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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