So true it is that love of money alone is incapable of dreading death by the sword.
Usque adeo solus ferrum mortemque timere
auri nescit amor.
auri nescit amor.
Original text (Latin)
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You have taken from me the one privilege of civil war – the power of granting life to the defeated.
Men are ignorant that the purpose of the sword is to save every man from slavery.
I have a wife, I have sons; all these hostages have I given to fortune.
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