Ovid — "What is harder than rock, or softer than water? Yet soft water hollows out hard …"
What is harder than rock, or softer than water? Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere.
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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."
"Medio tutissimus ibis."
"Be patient and tough; this pain will serve you one day."
"Gutta cavat lapidem non vi sed saepe cadendo."
"Either do not attempt at all, or else accomplish."
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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