"A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace."
"With patience bear what pains you have deserved, Grieve, if you will, over what's unmerited."
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Source: Ovid (1852). “The Heroides: Or Epistles of the Heroines, The Amours, Art of Love, Remedy of Love and Minor Works of Ovid”, p.52
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