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The Roman people has been often beaten by force and overcome in many battles, but never in a whole war, in which lies all that is vital.

— Gaius Lucilius

Ut Romanus populus victus vei, superatus proeliis
saepe est multis, bello vero numquam, in quo sunt omnia.

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