"Laudem virtutis necessitati damus."
— Quintilian

January 1, 1970

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We give to necessity the praise of virtue. — Book I, Chapter VIII, 14 — Compare: "To maken vertue of necessite", Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales, "The Knightes Tale", line 3044