“Beauty's a frail flower.”
Forma bonum fragile est.
Ovid book Ars amatoria
Book II, line 113 (tr. James Michie)
Ars Amatoria (The Art of Love)
“Brittle beauty, that Nature made so frail,
Whereof the gift is small, and short the season;
Flowering to-day, to-morrow apt to fail;
Tickle treasure, abhorred of reason:
Dangerous to deal with, vain, of none avail;
Costly in keeping, past not worth two peason.”
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