“Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.”

— Ovid , book Epistulae ex Ponto

II, ix, 47
Epistulae ex Ponto (Letters From the Black Sea)

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Adde quod ingenuas didicisse fideliter artes emollit mores nec sinit esse feros.

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