Ovid

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• They come to see; they come that they themselves may be seen.

  Ars Amatoria (The Art of Love), Book I, line 99 (tr. Henry T. Riley)

• Love is a thing full of anxious fears.

  Heroides, I, 12

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• It is right to learn even from an enemy.

  Metamorphoses (Transformations), Book IV, 428

  • Enemies

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• The unexamined life is not worth living.

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