Ovid — "To put it briefly, we possess nothing that isn't mortal, except the benefits of …"
To put it briefly, we possess nothing that isn't mortal, except the benefits of the heart and the mind.
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"Be patient and tough; one day this pain will be useful to you. / Perfer et obdura, dolor hic tibi proderit olim."
"It is convenient that there be gods, and since it is convenient, let us believe there are."
"Either do not attempt at all, or else accomplish."
"You can learn from anyone even your enemy. / Fas est ab hoste doceri."
"The gods smile on the brave."
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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