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Facts about OvidSummaryOvid was a famous Poet from Rome, who lived between 43 BC and 18 AC.BiographyOvid was a Roman poet who, together with Virgil, Horace, Propertius and Tibullus considered the augusteiske future great writers. Ovid was born into a wealthy knight's family in Sulmona, a town in the Apennines. In the age of twelve he and his one year older brother, sent to Rome to take a degree in law and rhetoric. He completed his education in Athens, made a tour of Asia Minor and spent one year in Sicily.Our collection contains 88 quotes who is written / told by Ovid, under the main topics: Beauty, Medical. Here is some other popular authors who lived in the same timeframe: Seneca, Ben Sweetland, Lao Tzu, Arthur Kroker, Ben Weasel, Dave Rose, Jamie Murphy, Edwin Percy Whipple, Francisco de Goya, James Paget, Germanicus, John Mason, Meyer London, Carl Pope, John Skelton, William Broome, Paul Harrison, Ralph Venning, Nubar Gulbenkian, Paul Gerhardt Source / external links:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OvidFamous quotes by Ovid (88)   "A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow"
"An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand"
"At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time"
"Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish"
"Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery"
"Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality"
"Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish"
"The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool"
"Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all"
"The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged"
"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"
"What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless"
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