Ovid Quotes
A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.
Ovid. Tristia. Ex Ponto. Translated by Arthur Leslie Wheeler, Harvard University Press, 1924, p. 283.
Manava Dharma Shastra. Interestingly in an otherwise cruel and authoritarian system, slander of the king was overlooked in several situations including men in litigation who may be distressed with the king’s verdict. This text is a part of the Hindu Holy Texts. Hindus believe that Manu was a prophet whose text is revealed or inspired.
Describing Abraham Lincoln as he placed his name in a losing nomination for the Presidency:
During a rally for wartime unity someone in the crowd called out, "Thank God for a good King!" George replied:
She probably did not originate this quotation but she appears to be the first politician to use the phrase which has become so common.
Publius Ovidius Naso, known as Ovid (/ˈɒvɪd/) in the English-speaking world, was a Roman poet who lived during the reign of Augustus. He was a contemporary of the older Virgil and Horace with whom he is often ranked as one of the three canonical poets of Latin literature. The Imperial scholar Quintilian considered him the last of the Latin love elegists. He enjoyed enormous popularity, but, in one of the mysteries of literary history, he was sent by Augustus into exile in a remote province on the Black Sea, where he remained until his death. Ovid himself attributes his exile to carmen et error, "a poem and a mistake", but his discretion in discussing the causes has resulted in much speculation among scholars.
