“And warns us to use life’s beauty as it blooms. The thorn is spurned when the rose has dropped.”
Source: Fasti
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Famous Ovid Quotes
“Beauty, if you do not open your doors, takes age from lack of use.”
“A frail gift is beauty, which grows less as time draws on, and is devoured by its own years.”
“A pleasing countenance is no slight disadvantage. [Lat., Auxilium non leve vultus habet.]”
“Judgement of beauty can err, what with the wine and the dark.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)