“Our charms depart all on their own, so pluck the bloom.
For if you don't, it meets a wasted doom.”

—  Ovid , book Ars amatoria

Book III, lines 79–80 (tr. Len Krisak)
Ars Amatoria (The Art of Love)

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Nostra sine auxilio fugiunt bona; carpite florem, Qui, nisi carptus erit, turpiter ipse cadet.

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