The noiseless foot of Tune steals swiftly by And ere we dream of manhood, age is nigh. - Juvenal

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People have killed only when they could not achieve their aim in other ways there is a broadened strategy, with intellectual weapons why should I demoralize the enemy by military means if I can do so better and more cheaply in other ways?

Juvenal

The noiseless foot of Tune steals swiftly by And ere we dream of manhood, age is nigh.

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The venal herd. [Lat. , Venale pecus. ]

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Of the woes Of unhappy poverty, none is more difficult to bear Than that it heaps men with ridicule.

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Whatever guilt is perpetrated by some evil prompting, is grievous to the author of the crime. This is the first punishment of guilt that no one who is guilty is acquitted at the judgment seat of his own conscience. [Lat. , Exemplo quodcumque malo committitur, ipsi Displicet auctori. Prima est haec ultio, quod se Judice nemo nocens absolvitur. ]

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Our prayers should be for a sound mind in a healthy body. [Lat. , Orandum est ut sit mens sana in corpore sano. ]

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