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Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire. - Quintilian

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Roman rhetorician, 35-96

Author Keywords: Rhetorician, Roman

Other Authors

Decimus Laberius, Tacitus, Horace, Livy, Titus Caius Silius Italicus

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