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Ovid

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Make the workmanship surpass the materials.


— Ovid


#materials #surpass #workmanship

Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.


— Ovid


#away #gives #health #medicine #snatches

Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.


— Ovid


#darkness #every #fair #fault #forgiven

People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.


— Ovid


#confidence #magnitude #people #slow #undertakings

Take rest; a field that has rested gives a beautiful crop.


— Ovid


#crop #field #gives #rest #rested

The burden which is well borne becomes light.


— Ovid


#borne #burden #light #well #which

The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool.


— Ovid


#cool #die #fire #high-spirited #indeed

The vulgar crowd values friends according to their usefulness.


— Ovid


#crowd #friends #their #usefulness #values

Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.


— Ovid


#eyes #human #nature #revealed #she

Daring is not safe against daring men.


— Ovid


#daring #men #safe






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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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