Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus (64 BC – AD 8) was a Roman general, author and patron of literature and art.
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“What, then, does a chaste girl do?
She does not offer, yet she does not say “No.””
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“It is a sure sign that a culture has reached a dead end when it is no longer intrigued by its myths.”
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And though the sager sort our deeds reprove,
Let us not weigh them: Heav’n’s great lamps do dive
Into their west, and straight again revive,
But soon as once set is our little light,
Then must we sleep one ever-during night.”
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