“The mind enamored with deceptive things, declines things better.”
Adclinis falsis animus meliora recusat.
Book II, satire ii, line 6
Satires (c. 35 BC and 30 BC)
“The rich are always enamored of the ancient.”
— Samuel R. Delany, book Nova
Source: Nova (1968), Chapter 6 (p. 169)
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