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For why do you hasten to remove things that hurt your eyes, but if anything gnaws your mind, defer the time of curing it from year to year?

— Horace Epistles (-20)

Nam cur
quae laedunt oculum festinas demere; si quid
est animum, differs curandi tempus in annum?

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Book I, epistle ii, lines 37–39; translation by C. Smart

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