Be this your wall of brass — no secret sin,
To pale the cheek and rack the heart within!
[Hic murus aeneus esto,
nil conscire sibi, nulla pallescere culpa.]
Horace (65-8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 1, ep. 1 “To Maecenas”, l. 60ff (1.1.60-61) (20 BC) [tr. Martin (1881)]
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