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GERMANUS: As the cure for other ailments, viz., anger, vexation, and
impatience, has been shown to consist in opposing to them their contraries,
so also we should like to learn what sort of treatment we ought to use
against the spirit of fornication: I mean, whether the fire of lust can be
quenched by the representation, as in those other cases, of greater
inducements and things to excite it: because not merely to increase the
incentives to lust within us, but even to touch them with a passing look of
the mind, we believe to be utterly fatal to chastity.
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