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Ovid

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Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.


— Ovid


#cannot #dignity #love #same #share

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


— Ovid


#broken #chains #given #happy #hurt

It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.


— Ovid


#honest #purpose #to be honest

Love is a thing that is full of cares and fears.


— Ovid


#fears #full #love #love is #thing

Time, motion and wine cause sleep.


— Ovid


#motion #sleep #time #wine

We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.


— Ovid


#denied #ever #forbidden #striving #us

A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.


— Ovid


#punish #quick #reward #should #slow

Alas! how difficult it is not to betray one's guilt by one's looks.


— Ovid


#betray #difficult #guilt #how #looks

Envy aims very high.


— Ovid


#envy #high #very

Habits change into character.


— Ovid


#character #habits #into






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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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