“For when you have once begun to serve the Goddess, you will then in a still higher degree enjoy the fruit of your liberty.”

—  Apuleius , book The Golden Ass

Bk. 11, ch. 15; p. 233.
Metamorphoses (The Golden Ass)

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Nam cum coeperis deae servire, tunc magis senties fructum tuae libertatis.

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