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Johannes Secundus Quotes

1510–1536

Johannes Secundus (also Janus Secundus; 15 November 1510 – 25 September 1536) was a Neo-Latin poet of Dutch nationality.

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Seek not in borrowed hues your cheeks to dress,
Naked is Love, and loveth nakedness.

You are not to sing of the victorious arms of your caesar.

Would'st know men's greatest dangers? They are three:
Woman the first, then fire, and then sea.

The wary Lover learns by measure
To circumscribe his greatest joy;
Lest, what well-husbanded yeilds pleasure,
Might by the Repetition cloy.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Johannes Secundus (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.