Our minds are like our stomachs; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetites.

Mutatione recreabitur sicut in cibis, quorum diversitate reficitur stomachus et pluribus minore fastidio alitur.

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Quintilian. Institutio Oratoria. c. 95, bk. 1, ch. 12, sect. 5.

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Quintillan. The Orator's Education, Volume 1, Books 1-2. Translated by Donald A. Russell. Harvard UP, 2002, bk. 1, ch. 12, sect. 5.