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“ ”We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.
About Ovid
Publius Ovidius Naso (20 March 43 BC – 17 AD) was a Roman poet, commonly known to the English-speaking world as Ovid. Along with Virgil and Horace, Ovid is one of the three canonical poets of Latin literature, generally considered the greatest master of the elegiac couplet.
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Additional quotes by Ovid
"Bene vixit, bene qui latuit."
<i>(To live well is to live concealed.)</i>
Thence are we a hardy generation, and able to endure fatigue, and we give proofs from what original we are sprung.
Love is a child and naked; he has years that know no meanness, and he has no clothes, so that he is open in his ways.