Ovid Quote

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

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

Ovid

Suffering

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