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• Roman, remember that you shall rule the nations by your authority, for this is to be your skill, to make peace the custom, to spare the conquered, and to wage war until the haughty are brought low.

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  Peace, War, Skills

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• Confidence cannot find a place wherein to rest in safety.

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  Confidence, Philosophical, Reality

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• Such is the love of praise, so great the anxiety for victory.

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  Love, Anxiety, Victory

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• Trust the expert. -Experto credite

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  Trust, Experts

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• How can there be such anger in the minds of the gods?

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  Latin, Mind

  "The Aeneid".

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• Each man is led by his own liking.

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  Wisdom, Men

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• May the countryside and the gliding valley streams content me. Lost to fame, let me love river and woodland.

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  Rivers, Environmental, Gliding

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• The Britons are quite separated from all the world.

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  World, Britons, Nationalism

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• Trust not too much to appearances

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  Political, Politics, Too Much

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• Perhaps the day may come when we shall remember these sufferings with joy.

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  Joy, Suffering, May

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• Trust one who has gone through it.

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  Gone

  'Aeneid' bk. 11, l. 283

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• If I can not bend Heaven, I shall move Hell.

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  Moving, Heaven, Hell

  "Aeneid" by Virgil, Book VII, 29-19 BC.

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• Perhaps even these things, one day, will be pleasing to remember.

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  Philosophical, One Day, Remember

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• A chaplet of leaves crowns the victor.

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  Crowns

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• Live on in your blessings, your destiny's been won. But ours calls us on from one ordeal to the next.

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  Adversity, Blessing, Destiny

  Virgil (2006). “The Aeneid: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.119, Penguin

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• Through pain I've learned to comfort suffering men

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  Pain, Men, Suffering

  Virgil (2013). “The Aeneid”, p.34, Vintage

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• These passions of soul, these conflicts so fierce, will cease, and be repressed by the casting of a little dust.

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  Death, Passion, Dust

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• Consider what each soil will bear, and what each refuses

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  Philosophy, Soil, Bears

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• Then endure for a while, and live for a happier day!

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  Endure, Happier Days

  Virgil (1930). “Virgil”

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• There's a snake lurking in the grass.

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  Philosophical, Snakes, Grass

  Eclogues, 3.93.

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• The noblest motive is the public good.

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  Motive, Public Good

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• In youth alone, unhappy mortals live; But, ah! the mighty bliss is fugitive: Discolour'd sickness, anxious labour, come, And age, and death's inexorable doom.

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  Age, Unhappy, Youth

  Virgil (1825). “The Works of Virgil, Translated Into English Verse by John Dryden”, p.84

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• The leader of the deed was a woman. -Dux femina facti

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  Leadership, Women, Leader

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• It is easy to go down into Hell...; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - -there's the rub.

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  Air, Steps, Hell

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• What a lot of work it was to found the Roman race.

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  Latin, Race, Found

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