Ovid Quotes
Either do not attempt at all, or go through with it.
Ovid. The Art of Love, and Other Poems. Translated by J.H. Mozley, Harvard University Press, 1929, p. 39.
Gregory the Great. The Pope had sent a contingent of monks to bring Christianity to the people of England. However, the monks became immediately discouraged given the primitive state of the inhabitants, the climate, and the dangerous seas to voyage over. They asked permission of the Pope to withdraw. Gregory refused but sent Augustine of Canterbury to lead the contingent.
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.
