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... friendship . Do not wear a tight ring : that is , let your life be free , do not bind yourself by a chain . Do not poke the fire with a sword : that is , do not provoke an angry person , but yield to such . Do not eat the heart : do not ...
... friendship . Do not wear a tight ring : that is , let your life be free , do not bind yourself by a chain . Do not poke the fire with a sword : that is , do not provoke an angry person , but yield to such . Do not eat the heart : do not ...
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... friendship , knowing nothing of real freedom , flatterers of the rich , despisers of the poor , drawn to young men by a sort of natural logic , 2 showing their teeth and grinning all over when their patrons laugh , misbegotten brats of ...
... friendship , knowing nothing of real freedom , flatterers of the rich , despisers of the poor , drawn to young men by a sort of natural logic , 2 showing their teeth and grinning all over when their patrons laugh , misbegotten brats of ...
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... friendship , will not remain and continue to cherish merely for beauty that which gives it pain , where it gives no return of friendship and virtue . You remember the husband in the play saying to his wife , ' Do you hate me ? I can ...
... friendship , will not remain and continue to cherish merely for beauty that which gives it pain , where it gives no return of friendship and virtue . You remember the husband in the play saying to his wife , ' Do you hate me ? I can ...
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... friendship is noble and refined , whereas pleasure is vulgar and illiberal . Therefore , for a slave to love boys is neither liberal or refined : for it is merely the love of copulation , as the love of women . " § v . Protogenes was ...
... friendship is noble and refined , whereas pleasure is vulgar and illiberal . Therefore , for a slave to love boys is neither liberal or refined : for it is merely the love of copulation , as the love of women . " § v . Protogenes was ...
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... friendship and virtue . So your boy - lover wallows in the dust , bathes in cold water , raises his eyebrows , gives himself out for a philosopher , and lives chaste abroad because of the law : but in the stillness of night ' Sweet is ...
... friendship and virtue . So your boy - lover wallows in the dust , bathes in cold water , raises his eyebrows , gives himself out for a philosopher , and lives chaste abroad because of the law : but in the stillness of night ' Sweet is ...
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