“Resist beginnings; the remedy comes too late when the disease has gained strength by long delays.”

—  Ovid , book Remedia amoris

Source: Remedia Amoris (The Cure for Love), Lines 91–92

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Principiis obsta; sero medicina paratur Cum mala per longas convaluere moras.

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