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indecorum est super haec omne nimium, ideoque
etiam quod natura rei satis aptum est, nisi modo
quoque temperatur, gratiam perdit. cuius rei
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observatio iudicio magis quodam sentiri quam praeceptis tradi potest, quantum satis sit et quantum
recipiant aures. non habet res mensuram et quasi
pondus, quia ut in cibis alia aliis magis complent.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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