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

— Johannes Secundus

Quae mala sint hominum rebus tria maxima scire
Quaeris? Habe paucis: femina, flamma, fretum.

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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.

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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