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— Plautus"It is a great plague to be too handsome a man. [Lat., Nimia est miseria nimis pulchrum esse hominem.]"
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Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty. [Lat., Nimis in veritate, et similitudinis quam pulchritudinis amantior.]
— Quintilian
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Below the incandescent stars / below the incandescent fruit, / the strange experience of beauty; / its existence is too much; / it tears one to pieces / and each fresh wave of consciousness / is poison.
— Marianne Moore
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