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| And if my strength fails, at least my boldness will be a title of honour. [La., Quodsi deficiant vires audacia certe laus erit.] - Sextus Propertius (48-15BC) Roman Latin Elegiac Poet |
| Absence makes the heart grow fonder. - Sextus Propertius (48-15BC) Roman Latin Elegiac Poet |
| There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever. - Sextus Julius Frontinus (35-103) Roman Governor of England |
| The Sceptic being a lover of his kind, desires to cure by speech, as best he can, the self-conceit and rashness of the Dogmatists. So, just as the physicians who cure bodity ailments have remedies which differ in strength, and apply the severe ones to those whose ailments are severe and the milder to those mildly affected-so too the Sceptic propounds arguments which differ in strength, and employs those which are weighty and capable by their stringency of disposing of the Dogmatists' ailment, self-conceit, in cases where the mischief is due to a severe attack of rashness, which he employs the milder arguments in the case of those whose ailment is superficial and easy to cure, and whom it is possible to restore to health by milder methods of persuasion. - Sextus Empiricus (100-200) Greek Physician, Philosopher |
| By gold all good faith has been banished; by gold our rights are abused; the law itself is influenced by gold, and soon there will be an end of every modest restraint. [La., Auro pulsa fides. auro venalia jura, Aurum lex sequitur, mox sine lege pudor.] - Sextus Propertius (48-15BC) Roman Latin Elegiac Poet |
| The law itself follows gold. - Sextus Propertius (48-15BC) Roman Latin Elegiac Poet |
| They do not quarrel with appearances themselves, but only with the accounts given of appearances. - Sextus Empiricus (100-200) Greek Physician, Philosopher |
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