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“Rarely will two or three tribes confer to repulse a common danger. Accordingly they fight individually and are collectively conquered.”
― The Agricola and The Germania
― The Agricola and The Germania
“It is my belief that, given the necessary physical likeness, it was far easier to pretend to be king of Ruritania than it would have been to personate my next-door neighbor.”
― The Prisoner of Zenda
― The Prisoner of Zenda
“Whatever he knows of his weaknesses, Private Mulvaney is wholly ignorant of his strength.”
― Soldiers Three
― Soldiers Three
“There was more courage in bearing trouble than in escaping from it; the brave and the energetic cling to hope, even in spite of fortune; the cowardly and the indolent are hurried by their fears,' said Plotius Firmus, Roman Praetorian Guard.”
― The Histories
― The Histories
“fortes et strenuos etiam contra fortunam insistere, timidos et ignoros ad desperationem formidine properare - the brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair through fear alone”
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