“Tis not sufficient to combine
Well-chosen words in a well-ordered line.”
Non satis est puris versum perscribere verbis.
Book I, satire iv, line 54 (translated by John Conington)
Satires (c. 35 BC and 30 BC)
“No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.”
— Abraham Verghese, book Cutting for Stone
Source: Cutting for Stone
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