Ovid:

Beauty's a fragile boon, and the years are quick to destroy it, Always diminished with time, never enduring too long.

— Ovid Ancient

Metamorphoses

Ars Amatoria (Book 2, Lines 111-113).

c. 2 BCE

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Found in 1 providers: gemini

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"Scilicet est aliqua, quae te quoque dicat amare."

"The bold lover is often successful where the timid one fails."

"Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise."

"Credula res amor est."

"You can learn from anyone even your enemy. / Fas est ab hoste doceri."