“Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.”

—  Ovid , book Ars amatoria

Book I, lines 249–250
Ars Amatoria (The Art of Love)

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Nocte latent mendae, vitioque ignoscitur omni, Horaque formosam quamlibet illa facit.

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