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Sententiae

Publilius Syrus

A god could hardly love and be wise.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

Even divine power is imagined as insufficient protection against love’s effect on judgment. The exaggeration makes a familiar human difficulty sound almost universal. Loving and remaining perfectly wise are presented as competing demands, with affection capable of unsettling the confidence of even the strongest mind.

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