Plato (-427–-347 BC) Classical Greek philosopher
183e, M. Joyce, trans, Collected Dialogues of Plato (1961), p. 537
The Symposium
“Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover,
Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense.”
— Joseph Addison, book Cato
Act I, scene iv.
Cato, A Tragedy (1713)
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