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Let love steal in disguised as friendship.

— Ovid

Intret amicitiae nomine tectus amor.

Original text (Latin)

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Notes from Wikiquote

Book I, line 720; translated by J. Lewis May in The Love Books of Ovid, 1930

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Love will enter cloaked in friendship's name.

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