Judgement of beauty can err, what with the wine and the dark.
Ovid
Publius Ovidius Naso, known in English as Ovid, was a Roman poet who lived during the reign of Augustus. He was a younger contemporary of 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. Although Ovid enjoyed enormous popularity during his lifetime, the emperor Augustus exiled him to Tomis, the capital of the newly organised province of Moesia, on the Black Sea, where he remained for the last nine or ten years of his life. Ovid himself attributed his banishment to a carmen et error, but his reluctance to disclose specifics has resulted in much speculation among scholars.
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When I was from Cupid's passions free, my Muse was mute and wrote no elegy.
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Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.
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What is allowed us is disagreeable, what is denied us causes us intense desire.
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There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
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We are slow to believe that which if believed would hurt our feelings.
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How little you know about the age you live in if you think that honey is sweeter than cash in hand.
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Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these
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