Ovid — "There is no more unfortunate creature under the sun than a man who has an excell…"
There is no more unfortunate creature under the sun than a man who has an excellent wife, but does not know how to enjoy her.
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"Ignibus aequis."
"Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish."
"Quamdiu stabit Capitolium, stabit Roma; quando cadet Capitolium, cadet Roma; quando cadet Roma, cadet et mundus."
"Happy is the man who has broken the chains of love, and has given up his heart to the gods."
"Omnia mutantur, nihil interit (everything changes, nothing perishes)."
About Ovid (43 BCE - 17/18 CE)
Roman poet whose Metamorphoses (8 CE) is the longest surviving Latin poem and Western literature's main pagan-mythology source. Closely associated with Virgil (the Aeneid poet and other Augustan poetic giant) and Horace (third Augustan-era major poet). For an intellectual contrast, see Augustus, Roman emperor (27 BCE – 14 CE) — Augustus exiled Ovid to Tomis on the Black Sea in 8 CE, reasons tied to his erotic poetry (Ars Amatoria) and possible knowledge of imperial-family scandal — Augustus represented Roman moral-restoration politics that Ovid's witty erotic verse was structurally against.
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