“Is demum miser est, cuius nobilitas miserias nobilitat. Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.” -- Publius Attius Varus
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“Let them hate me provided they fear me” -- Publius Attius Varus
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“All my life I've been aware of the Second World War humming in the background. I was born 10 years after it was finished, and without ever seeing it. It formed my generation and the world we lived in. I played Hurricanes and Spitfires in the playground, and war films still form the basis of all my moral philosophy. All the men I've ever got to my feet for or called sir had been in the war.”
“God never can use any man very much till he has grace enough to forget himself entirely while doing God's work; for He will not give His glory to another nor share with the most valued instrument the praise that belongs to Jesus Christ alone.”
“God wants us to speak to men so that they will feel it, so that they will never forget it. God means every Christian to be effective, to make a difference in the actual records and results of Christian work. God put each of us here to be a power. There is not one of us but is an essential wheel of the machinery and can accomplish all that God calls us to.”
“A devotee should be fixed in the conclusion that, the spiritual master cannot be subject to criticism and should never be considered equal to a common man.”
“The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.”
“Fame is a very strange animal.”
“Death hath a fairer fame than a life of toil.”
“The man with but one idea in his head is sure to exaggerate that to top-heaviness, and thus he loses his equilibrium.”
“Most terrors are but spectral illusions. Only have the courage of the man who could walk up to his spectre seated in the chair before him, and sit down upon it; the horrid thing will not partake the chair with you.”
“The only man never to be redeemed is the man without passion.”
Augustus Roman emperor
Julius Caesar Roman dictator
Lucius Accius Poet
