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Quotes from Frgament in the Poetae Latini Minores. Translated by Michael Heseltine — Petronius

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The pleasure of the act of love is gross and brief, and love once consummated brings loathing after it. Let us then not rush blindly thither straightway like lustful beasts, for love sickens and the flame dies down; but even so, even so, let us keep eternal holiday, and lie with thy lips to mine. No toil is here and no shame: in this, delight has been, and is, and long shall be; in this there is no diminution, but a beginning everlastingly

Attributed Frgament in the Poetae Latini Minores. Translated by Michael Heseltine (1913)

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