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Beauty and wisdom are rarely conjoined. — Gaius Petronius

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Beauty and wisdom are rarely conjoined.

In the original Latin

Raram fecit mixturam cum sapientia forma.

Gaius Petronius
Satyricon · 66
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BeautyWisdom
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66Classical antiquity
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Gaius Petronius
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Petronius. "The Satyricon." The Satyricon and The Apocolocyntosis of the Divine Claudius, translated by J. P. Sullivan. Penguin Classics, 1986, sect. 94.
Original citation
Petronius. Satyricon, Satyricon liber [The Book of Satyrlike Adventures]. c. 1st century AD, sect. 94.

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