"Nec tam fugisse cauendo aduersa egregium, quam perdomuisse ferendo."
— Silius Italicus

January 1, 1970

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OratorsPoets from Rome
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And he held it a nobler thing to conquer adversity by endurance than to avoid it by precaution. — Book VI, lines 375–376