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The mind is sicker than the sick body in contemplation of its sufferings it becomes hopeless. [Lat., Corpore sed mens est aegro magis aegra malique In circumspectu stat sine fine sui.]

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Publius Ovidius Naso
P. Ovidius Naso
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