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The courage of a soldier is heightened by his knowledge of his profession. — Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

Few men are born brave. Many become so through training and force of discipline. — Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

No great dependence is to be placed on the eagerness of young soldiers for action ... fighting is agreeable to those who are strangers to it. — Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

An odd thing about beauty, however, is that it's absence tends not to arouse our sympathy as much as other forms of privation do. — Jonathan Franzen

The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations. — Adam Smith

Let him who desires peace prepare for war. — Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

Once you're an addict, you're always an addict, so just because I found something good to do doesn't mean I'm not going to hurt myself doing it. — Jeff Tweedy

I think honestly, some people who think they're gay, they're confused. — Stevie Wonder

Who would desire peace should be prepared for war. — Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

Every one stretcheth his legges according to his coverlet.
[Every one stretches his legs according to his coverlet.] — George Herbert

An army is strengthened by labor and enervated by idleness. — Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

Myth offers a third place to stand or a third way to see when we find ourselves caught between opposing ideas and hardening ideologies. — Michael Meade

Somehow, throughout much of life, being old seems to be something that happens to other people. — Maggie Scarf

Flavius has never put a single question to us as to what we were. In his mind, I found, devotion and acceptance far superseded curiosity or fear. — Anne Rice

Yet did that Antiochus, who was also called Dionysius, become an origin of troubles again. — Flavius Josephus

Valor is superior to number. — Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

In time of peace prepare for war. — Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

One rose says more than the dozen. — Wendy Craig

There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon. — Matsuo Basho

If you want peace, prepare for the war. — Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

Poetry is the plough that turns up time in such a way that the abyssal strata of time, its black earth, appear on the surface. — Osip Mandelstam

It becomes an emperor to die standing. — Titus Flavius Vespasian

The body of a dead enemy always smells sweet. — Titus Flavius Vespasian

Now Herod was an active man, and soon found proper materials for his active spirit to work upon. — Flavius Josephus

I simply
don't know," Flavius said, and then suddenly explosive: "I don't know and I don't care! Go to bed. — Rosemary Sutcliff

He was one of the many toads you have to go through to find the prince. — Nora Roberts