Et sane si velimus cum priorum temporum necessitate certare, vincemur; ingeniosior est enim ad excogitandum simulatio veritate, servitus libertate, metus amore.
Of course we cannot hope to compete with the compulsion of former times, for novelty is more readily devised by simulated than by genuine feeling, less successfully by freedom and affection than by servitude and fear.
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