“Our charms depart all on their own, so pluck the bloom.
For if you don't, it meets a wasted doom.”
Book III, lines 79–80 (tr. Len Krisak)
Ars Amatoria (The Art of Love)
Original
Nostra sine auxilio fugiunt bona; carpite florem, Qui, nisi carptus erit, turpiter ipse cadet.
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Ovid 120
Roman poet -43–17 BCRelated quotes

“In plucking the fruit of memory one runs the risk of spoiling its bloom.”
The Arrow of Gold http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext97/argld10h.htm (1919), Author's note,

“You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart.”
Source: The Three Musketeers

2000s, 2004, 2004 Video Broadcast on Al-Jazeera October 29

“Don't waste the Earth - It is our Jewel!”
Buzz Aldrin, 2012, quote from interview video at 1:28, https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=6&v=E3W7eVkWSs4