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Let them (the wicked) see the beauty of virtue, and pine at having forsaken her. [lat., virtutem videant, intabescantque relicta.]
-Aulus Persius Flaccus
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Let Them (the Wicked) See The Beauty

Aulus Persius Flaccus
Let them (the wicked) see the beauty of virtue, and pine at having forsaken her. [lat., virtutem videant, intabescantque relicta.]
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