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So live, my boys, as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

— Horace Satires (-35)

Quocirca vivite fortes, fortiaque adversis opponite pectora rebus

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Book II, Satire II, Line 135-136 (trans. E. C. Wickham)

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