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Two goddesses now must Cyprus adore;
The Muses are ten, and the Graces are four;
Stella's wit is so charming, so sweet her fair face,
She shines a new Venus, a Muse, and a Grace.

— Callimachus

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Surely much knowledge is a grievous thing for him who does not control his tongue; this man is really a child with a knife.

The gods always give small things to small men.

The grammarian Callimachus used to say that a big book is equivalent to a big evil.

May I not keep concealed anything that is good.

He sware: but what they say is true—that lovers' oaths enter not the ears of the immortals.

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