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What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless.
Ovid
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What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless. — Ovid

About Ovid

Ovid was a Poet from Ancient Rome (?–16).

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This quote is attributed to Ovid, a Poet from Ancient Rome.
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Ovid lived from ? – 16.
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