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Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending it.

— Scipio Africanus

Hosti non solum dandam esse viam fugiendi verum etiam muniendam.

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According to Cato the Elder, Scipio Africanus was wont to say that he was never less at leisure than when at leisure, nor less lonely than when alone.

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