Ovid

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• Nothing is stronger than habit.

  Ars Amatoria (The Art of Love), Book II, line 345

• 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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