Statius Quotes
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A just fortune awaits the deserving. [Lat., Fors aequa merentes Respicit.]
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Take time for deliberation. Haste spoils everything.
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Oh, how cowardly is wickedness always!
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Give not reins to your inflamed passions: take time and a little delay; impetuosity manages all things badly.
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Allow time and moderate delay; haste manages all things badly.
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Fear in the world first created the gods. [Lat., Primus in orbe deos fecit timor.]
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What the morrow's years might bring 'twas sin for man to know.
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Give time and permit a short delay, impetuosity ruins everything.
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In doubt, fear is the worst of prophets.
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Fear first made gods in the world.
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It is noble to grant life to the vanquished. [Lat., Pulchrum est vitam donare minori.]
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They send their shout to the stars. [Lat., Clamorem ad sidera mittunt.]
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Left behind as a memory for us. [Lat., Nobis meminisse relictum.]
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Whoever truly worships the gods loves their priests.
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It is an honourable thing to be merciful to the vanquished.
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Virtue may be cheerful without forgetting its dignity.
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A short reign does not spare the masses.
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Heaven forbids that man should know What change tomorrow's fate may bring.
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Anguish devours the mind, and furious rage, and hope than which the heart can bear no heavier burden, when it is long deferred.
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