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May you live unenvied, and pass many pleasant years unknown to fame and also have congenial friends. [Lat., Vive sine invidia, mollesque inglorius annos Exige amicitias et tibi junge pares.]

Ovid

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Publius Ovidius Naso
P. Ovidius Naso
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