“We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.”
“Resist beginnings; the remedy comes too late when the disease has gained strength by long delays.”
Source: Remedia Amoris (The Cure for Love), Lines 91–92
Original
Principiis obsta; sero medicina paratur Cum mala per longas convaluere moras.
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