43 B.C.- A.D. 17
Ovid was a Latin poet, who wrote such works as:
| Amores (Love) | Fasti ( The Calendar) | Metamorphoses | Ars Amatoria ( The Art of Love) |
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| Heroides (Heroines) | Remedia Amoris ( The Cure of Love) | Medicamina Faclei Femineae (Women's Facial Cosmetics) |
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| Trista Epistulae ex Ponta (letters from the Black Sea) |
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The Erotic Poems: The Art of Love, Cure for Love, on Facial Treatment from Ladies |
Quotes:
"I can't live either without you or with you."
"It is a smaller thing to suffer punishment than to have deserved it."
"It is annoying to e honest to no purpose."
"It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are."
"Love is a kind of warfare."
"Whether they yield or refuse, it delights women to have been asked."
"Who would have known of Hector, if Troy had been happy? The road to valor is built by adversity."
"All things change; nothing perishes."
“Whether they yield or refuse, it delights women to have been asked.”
“Luck affects everything; let your hook always
caught in the stream where you least expect it, there will be fish.”
Links:
Review: The Story of Pyramus and Thisbe from the Metamorphoses
G. Brailsford-Cato