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licet haec et nitere et aliquatenus exstare
videantur, tamen et lumina illa non flammae, sed
scintillis inter fumum emicantibus similia dixeris
(quae ne apparent quidem, ubi tota lucet oratio, ut
in sole sidera ipsa desinunt cerni); et, quae crebris
parvisque conatibus se attollunt, inaequalia tantum
et velut confragosa nec admirationem consequuntur
eminentium et planorum gratiam perdunt.
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