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

— Johannes Secundus

Mensura rebus est sua dulcibus.
Ut quodque mentes suavius afficit,
fastidium sic triste secum
limite proximiore ducit.

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