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Valor is the contempt of death and pain.

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Tacitus
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Publius Cornelius Tacitus
Gaius Cornelius Tacitus
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The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.
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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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Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]
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