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Ovid

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What makes men indifferent to their wives is that they can see them when they please.


— Ovid


#makes #men #please #see #their

Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.


— Ovid


#call #confess #heart #i #misfortune

Against the bold, daring is unsafe.


— Ovid


#bold #daring #unsafe

Ah me! Love can not be cured by herbs.


— Ovid


#cured #herbs #love #me

An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.


— Ovid


#consumed #distribution #feared #increases #lessens

An evil life is a kind of death.


— Ovid


#evil #kind #life #life is a

Art lies by its own artifice.


— Ovid


#art lies #artifice #lies #own

Bear patiently with a rival.


— Ovid


#bear #patiently #rival

Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.


— Ovid


#death #delay #less #punishment #than

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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