"Hic tantum Boreae curamus frigora, quantum Aut numerum lupus aut torrentia flumina ripas."
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Compare: — Nay, number (itself) in armies, importeth not much, where the people is of weak courage; for (as Virgil saith) it never troubles the wolf how many the sheep be. — Francis Bacon, Essays or Counsels Civil and Moral (1597), XXIX: 'Of the True Greatness of Kingdoms and Estates'
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