"Forma bonum fragile est, quantumque accedit ad annos Fit minor: et spatio carpitur ipsa suo. [...]Et tibi jam cani venient, formose, capilli: Jam venient rugs, que tibi corpus arent. Jam molire animum, qui duret, et adstrue formæ. Solus ad extremos permanet ille rogos."
— Ars Amatoria

January 1, 1970

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Fragile is beauty: with advancing years ’Tis less and less and, last, it disappears. Your hair too, fair one, will turn grey and thin; And wrinkles furrow that now rounded skin; Then brace the mind and beauty fortify, The mind alone is yours, until you die — 2, 119. Fragile is Beauty.