Cito fit quod dii volunt.
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Tacitus quote
Deos fortioribus adesse.
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Latin phrase
Memento mori.
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Mexican proverb
‘The brave man lives until the coward wants’.
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Folie en masse
‘Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, one by one’. —Charles Mackay.
This quotation comes from a book first published in 1841.
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Chinese proverb
‘A courageous foe is better than a cowardly friend’.
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Author unknown
‘Adversity introduces a man to himself’.
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Himmler quote
‘Every healthy young German is committing a crime against the Volk if between age twenty-five and thirty-five he does not have four or five children’.
—H. Himmler, Das Schwarze Korps, 1939.
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Latin proverb
Quidquid præcipies esto brevis.
‘Whatever advice you give, be short’.
Horace, Ars Poetica (18 BC), CCCXXXV.
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Lucretius quote
Suave mare magno
(It is pleasant to watch the wild sea)
— Lucretius, 98-55 b.c.e, Roman poet