"It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen."
-Herodotus
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"I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.“
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"Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men."
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