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The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
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Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
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The grove is the centre of their whole religion. It is regarded as the cradle of the race and the dwelling-place of the supreme god to whom all things are subject and obedient.
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The unknown always passes for the marvellous.
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Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
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The powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry. [Lat., Facetiarum apud praepotentes in longum memoria est.]
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