A quotation from Cicero, Marcus Tullius:

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We come now to the third ground for abusing old age, and that is, that it is devoid of sensual pleasures. O glorious boon of age, if it does indeed free us from youth’s most vicious fault! Now listen, most noble young men, to what that remarkably great and distinguished man, Archytas of Tarentum, said in an ancient speech repeated …
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A quotation from Dante Alighieri:

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Gustave Doré
And this, I learned, was the never ending flight
     of those who sinned in the flesh, the carnal and lusty
     who betrayed reason to their appetite.
As the wings of wintering starlings bear them on
     in their great wheeling flights, just so the blast
     wherrie…
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