“The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.”
Cato the Elder (-234–-149 BC) politician, writer and economist (0234-0149)
Apothegms (no. 247)
“When ice appears out of doors, and boys seize it up while it is solid, at first they experience new pleasures. But in the end their pride will not agree to let it go, but their acquisition is not good for them if it stays in their hands. In the same way an identical desire drives lovers to act and not to act.”
Achilles' Loves, only surviving fragment, often quoted as "Love is like ice in the hands of children".
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