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• Brave men were living before Agamemnon. -- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Don Juan, Canto i, Stanza 5
• Vain was the chief's the sage's pride! They had no poet, and they died.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace, Odes, Book iv, Ode 9...
• Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men. -- Seneca (8 BC) -- De Providentia, 5, 9
• In adversity remember to keep an even mind. -- Horace (8 BC)
• We are all driven into the same fold. -- Horace (8 BC)
• Words that wise Bacon or brave Raleigh spoke.
• Fortune helps the brave. -- Terence (185-159 BC) -- Phormio, Act i, Sc. 4, 25, (203.)
• Horace [65-8 B.C], _Odes_, book 11
• Not lost, but gone before. -- Seneca (8 BC) -- Epistolae, 63, 16