Themes
A god could hardly love and be wise.
— Publilius Syrus
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Our reading
An editorial 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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