“So long as you are secure you will count many friends; if your life becomes clouded you will be alone.”

—  Ovid , book Tristia

I, ix, 5
Tristia (Sorrows)

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Donec eris sospes, multos numerabis amicos: tempora si fuerint nubila, solus eris.

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