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We did not flinch but gave our lives to save Greece when her fate hung on a razor's edge.

— Simonides of Ceos

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Not even the gods fight against necessity.

Of earthly goods, the best is a good wife;
A bad, the bitterest curse of human life.

Difficult, say you? Difficult to be a man of virtue, truly good, shaped and fashioned without flaw in the perfect figure of four-squared excellence, in body and mind, in act and thought?

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry painting that speaks.

We count it death to falter, not to die.

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