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Tu si animum vicisti potius quam animus te est quod gaudias. If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice.— PLAUTUS — Trinummus. II. 29.
Naturæ sequitur semina quisque suæ. Every one follows the inclinations of his own nature.— PROPERTIUS — Elegiæ. III. 9. 20.
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