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Namque pauci libertatem, pars magna iustos dominos volunt
Only a few prefer liberty, the majority seek nothing more than fair masters.
Sallust
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"For my part, at all times and in all places, I have lived as though the present day were my last and would never return again"
Petronius - The Satyricon AD 60
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Victor Davis Hanson:
"Earlier Romans knew what it was to be Roman, why it was at least better than the alternative, and why their culture had to be defended. Later in ignorance they forgot what they knew, in pride mocked who they were, and in consequence disappeared."
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The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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procul hinc, procul este, severi!
Away from here, far awy, anyone who is prudish!
Ovid "Amores" 2.1.3
http://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Latin/AmoresBkII.htm#_Toc520535833