“Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.”

— Ovid · Courage quote

Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you. — Ovid quote card
Poet · 43 BC – 17

Ovid was a Roman poet celebrated for the Metamorphoses, a vast narrative poem of mythological transformations. Exiled by the emperor Augustus to the Black Sea coast, he spent his last decade writing poems of lament and endurance.

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