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I am the poet of the poor, because I was poor when I loved; since I could not give gifts, I gave words.
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Let him who loves, where love success may find,
Spread all his sails before the prosperous wind;
But let poor youths who female scorn endure,
And hopeless burn, repair to me for cure.
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It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.
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Beauty's a fragile boon, and the years are quick to destroy it,
Always diminished with time, never enduring too long.
Violet's always fade, and the bloom departs from the lily;
When the roses are gone, nothing is left but the thorn.
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Then the omnipotent Father with his thunder made Olympus tremble, and from Ossa hurled Pelion.
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Golden was that first age, which, with no one to compel, without a law, of its own will, kept faith and did the right.
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Every lover is a warrior, and Cupid has his camps.
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Give way to your opponent; thus will you gain the crown of victory.
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We take no pleasure in permitted joys.
But what's forbidden is more keenly sought.
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I grabbed a pile of dust, and holding it up, foolishly asked for as many birthdays as the grains of dust, I forgot to ask that they be years of youth.
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Women can always be caught; that's the first rule of the game.
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What we call birth
Is but a beginning to be something else
Than what we were before; and when we cease
To be that something, then we call it death.
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The healing art knows not how to remove crippling gout, it helps not the fearful dropsy.
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There is a place above, where Scorpio bent, In tail and arms surrounds a vast extent; In a wide circuit of the heavens he shines, And fills the place of two celestial signs.
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Ere land and sea and the all-covering sky Were made, in the whole world the countenance Of nature was the same, all one, well named Chaos, a raw and undivided mass, Naught but a lifeless bulk, with warring seeds Of ill-joined elements compressed together.
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Take this at least, this last advice, my son:
Keep a stiff rein, and move but gently on:
The coursers of themselves will run too fast,
Your art must be to moderate their haste.
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Here Jove with Hermes came; but in disguise
Of mortal men conceal'd their deities;
One laid aside his thunder, one his rod
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Medicine sometimes removes, sometimes bestows safety, showing what plant is healthful, what harmful.
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Friendship is but a name, faith is an empty name. Alas,
it is not safe to praise to a friend the object of your love;
as soon as he believes your praises, he slips into your place.
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I have never injured anybody with a mordant poem; my
verse contains charges against nobody. Ingenuous, I have
shunned wit steeped in venom--not a letter of mine is dipped
in poisonous jest.
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See that you promise: what harm is there in promise? In
promises anyone can be rich.
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The same object will both wound and cure me.
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For the sharp medic'cine is the patient's cure.
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Love is a naked child: do you think he has pockets for money?
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And thrusts the Scorpion with his bended bow.
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Born:
March 20, 43 BC
Died:
17 AD
(aged 60)
Bio:
Publius Ovidius Naso, known as Ovid in the English-speaking world, was a Roman poet who lived during the reign of Augustus.
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