Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Ovid: Quotes & Facts
    Ovid: Quotes & Facts
    Ovid: Quotes & Facts
    Ebook27 pages11 minutes

    Ovid: Quotes & Facts

    By Blago Kirov

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    This book is an anthology of quotes from Ovid and selected facts about Ovid. It grants his reflections on subjects ranging from Philosophy and Love to Meaning of Life; in addition, the book shows the personality of Ovid:

    “A man is sorry to be honest for nothing.”

    “A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.”

    “A safe pleasure is a tame pleasure.”

    “A short absence is the safest.”

    “Little things please little minds.”

    “Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.”

    “Love is a naked child: do you think he has pockets for money?”

    “The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.”

    “Venus favors the bold.”

    “We two are to ourselves a crowd.”

    “What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.”

    “When a rose dies, a thorn is left behind.”

    “Whether they give or refuse, it delights women

    just the same to have been asked.”

    “You can learn from anyone even your enemy.”
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBlago Kirov
    Release dateOct 5, 2016
    ISBN9788822852861
    Ovid: Quotes & Facts

    Read more from Blago Kirov

    Related to Ovid

    Related ebooks

    Trivia For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Riffing On The Poetic Tradition

      Apr 29, 2021

      POOR OVID. In 8 AD, he was one of Rome’s leading poets when the emperor Augustus sent him to Tomis, the Roman Empire’s equivalent of Woop Woop. His seduction handbook written in verse, the Ars Amatoria, was banned from Rome’s public libraries. In Tom

      3 min read

    • Article

      Ten Ways to Lose Your Literature

      Jan 25, 2021

      Just as all literature is haunted by the potential of oblivion, so all lost books are animated by the redemptive hope of their rediscovery. The post Ten Ways to Lose Your Literature appeared first on The Millions.

      28 min read

    • Article

      Literature’s Year Zero

      Jan 27, 2022

      Literature’s Year Zero
      8 min read

    • Article

      Classical Corner

      Mar 24, 2022

      Classical Corner
      7 min read

    • Article

      Ovid’s Exilic Imagination

      May 25, 2022

      I suggest that Ovid was not simply exiled, but that he also exiled himself. The post Ovid’s Exilic Imagination appeared first on The Millions.

      6 min read

    • Article

      What The Thunder Said

      Sep 14, 2022

      ON Margate Sands./I can connect/ Nothing with nothing.’ Thomas Stearns (T. S.) Eliot crafted these short lines that form a part of his fractured epic The Waste Land in October 1921, as he sat in the inauspicious Nayland Rock Shelter (granted Grade II

      4 min read

    • Article

      Beauty Born Of Ashes

      Dec 1, 2022

      “The Waste Land,” not “The Wasteland” or “Waste Land,” and “not Waste Lands,” T. S. Eliot would correct people regarding the title of his epoch-defining poem. Originally he’d had in mind another title altogether, “He Do the Police in Different Voices

      4 min read

    • Article

      The Political Economy of Joseph Conrad

      Nov 1, 2020

      What can Joseph Conrad tell us about the political and economic arrangements that make for a flourishing society? I argue in this essay that Conrad presents the England of his time as embodying the institutional and cultural arrangements that make fo

      26 min read

    • Article

      The Waste Land turns 100

      Oct 19, 2022

      The Waste Land turns 100
      5 min read

    • Article

      Triumphs of Pseudoscientific Reasoning: On Osip Mandelstam’s ‘Journey to Armenia’

      Oct 8, 2018

      1. In 1922, the same year the USSR entered the world, the poet Osip Mandelstam moved to Moscow, hoping to establish himself as a leading voice of the Socialist utopia he’d supported since his teens. Instead, he found himself an outcast. In early Sovi

      10 min read

    • Article

      'The Eternal City' Chronicles Rome's Inimitable History

      Nov 30, 2018

      In many ways, Ferdinand Addis's book reads more like a slightly modernized and extended version of Livy than an actual work of what we would consider modern, serious history.

      3 min read

    • Article

      From The Trojan War To Conflict In Ukraine

      Nov 30, 2023

      THE YEAR 2023 HAS BEENrich in works composed in tempore belli. The most impressive is Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine (William Collins, £26) by General David Petraeus and the historian Andrew Roberts. This is an ambitious and

      6 min read

    • Article

      The World Is All That Is the Case

      Aug 11, 2021

      When you come to Ludwig Wittgenstein on the road, you must kill him. The knife that you use is entitled the Tractatus, and he'll hand it to you first. The post The World Is All That Is the Case appeared first on The Millions.

      12 min read

    • Article

      Paradise Dimmed

      Jun 29, 2023

      In 1868, the writer John William De Forest coined the term “The Great American Novel” to describe an epic in prose that would “paint the American soul”, capture national ideals and manners, and help unify the United States after the Civil War. He hop

      8 min read

    • Article

      László Krasznahorkai

      Jun 15, 2018

      László Krasznahorkai
      27 min read

    • Article

      Milan Kundera obituary

      Jul 12, 2023

      In December 1968, a plane carrying Gabriel García Márquez and Carlos Fuentes touched down in Prague. The two authors had come to show solidarity with Czechoslovakia’s writers and to discuss the year’s historic events: how the hopes of Alexander Dubce

      6 min read

    • Article

      A Year in Reading: Matt Seidel

      Dec 9, 2017

      I tend to buy used books in bunches, which means the haul from some expeditions stays buried for weeks, months, years even. For this entry, I highlight three finds that, breaking custom, I bought and read almost immediately this year: Hugo Charteris’

      6 min read

    • Article

      Nadar’s Livre d’or

      Jul 5, 2017

      Nadar’s Livre d’or
      9 min read

    • Article

      Fancy A Stroll? Great Writers Extol The Pleasures Of Walking.

      May 31, 2019

      Classic and contemporary authors wax philosophic on the inspiration they find during a ramble.

      3 min read

    • Article

      Man of the World

      Sep 6, 2016

      Shakespeare may never have left England, but he became the most global writer who ever lived.

      4 min read

    • Article

      Poet Of The Extreme

      Sep 1, 2021

      Poet Of The Extreme
      4 min read

    • Article

      Dissident Lit

      Sep 1, 2022

      My sophomore year in college, I took a class on the Russian novel. I remember our goodlooking young professor striding across campus in a long black coat, heads turning in his wake. It was said he looked like Lenin. His eyes burned like coals, his ch

      9 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Ovid

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      Ovid - Blago Kirov

      @#2^book_preview_excerpt.htmlTn0~hBhHETѳObwO?HOƌt!V+|3목)eSW|0/LJ*@LVoFxnTW`{z54 w'dMg]ceC}Cgf(~* :wv@HAD9`' K2t*lo2_a@":lj !t Ғ@bnP*3WcERB>akLMk+vEi ͱ<"yl*~'rT tNecEh1{ͮ>d3SAoD1E*r8iHj8PHlnDoW&-#QXwcqS+Y;*<-{u^qkSrh+y͈жM<[T$wHoImjϭ%TS[N@- ʅxQL= J=u@7xm=̒h!@跬ߟϛ}f:j8sǙL1WpBpyQGwoVE-`1;=y7+u/bw2rvoy:W :TF@'vFi|R 4,
      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1