“Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.”
Author detail
Ovid, was a Roman poet who is best known as the author of the Heroides, Amores, and Ars Amatoria, three major collections of erotic poetry, the Metamorphoses a mythological hexameter poem, the Fasti, about the Roman calendar, and the Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto, two collections of poems written in exile on the Black Sea. Ovid was also the author of several smaller pieces, the Remedia Amoris, the Medicamina Faciei Femineae, and the Ibis, a long curse-poem. He also authored a lost tragedy, Medea. 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. The scholar Quintilian considered him the last of the canonical Latin love elegists.[1] His poetry, much imitated during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, decisively influenced European art and literature and remains as one of the most important sources of classical mythology.[2] ([Source][1].) [1]:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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.”
“Brass shines with constant usage, a beautiful dress needs wearing, Leave a house empty, it rots.”
“Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.”
“The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.”
“An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.”
“Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.”
“The bold adventurer succeeds the best.”
“Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.”
“Envy aims very high.”
“Alas! how difficult it is not to betray one's guilt by one's looks.”
“There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.”
“Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.”
“It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.”
“Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.”
“I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement.”
“First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, 'I believe,' three times.”
“Art lies by its own artifice.”
“Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts.”
“The gods behold all righteous actions.”
“What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless.”