Vixere fortes ante Agamemnona
Multi; sed omnes illacrimabiles
Urguentur ignotique longa
Nocte, carent quia vate sacro.
Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but, all unwept and unknown, are lost in the distant night, since they are without a divine poet (to chronicle their deeds).
True bravery is shown by performing without
witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world.
There's a brave fellow! There's a man of pluck!
A man who's not afraid to say his say,
Though a whole town's against him.
How well Horatius kept the bridge
In the brave days of old.
Rebus in angustis facile est contemnere vitam;
Fortiter ille facit qui miser esse potest.
In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wretched life.
'Tis more brave
To live, than to die.
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Audentem Forsque Venusque juvant.
Fortune and love favour the brave.
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Omne solum forti patria est.
The brave find a home in every land.
Audentes deus ipse juvat.
God himself favors the brave.
Who combats bravely is not therefore brave:
He dreads a death-bed like the meanest slave.
Dem Muthigen hilft Gott.
God helps the brave.
Come one, come all! this rock shall fly
From its firm base as soon as I.
Scott—Lady of the Lake Canto V. St. 10.
He did look far
Into the service of the time, and was
Discipled of the bravest; he lasted long;
But on us both did haggish age steal on
And wore us out of act.
All's Well That Ends Well. Act I. Sc2. L. 26.
What's brave, what's noble,
Let's do it after the high Roman fashion,
And make death proud to take us.
Antony and Cleopatra. Act IV. Sc. 15.
L.86.
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| text = Fortes et strenuos etiam contra fortunam
insistere, timidos et ignores ad desperationem
formidine properare.
The brave and bold persist even against
fortune ; the timid and cowardly rush to despair
through fear alone.
Tacitus—Annates. II. 46.
Fortes fortuna adjuvat.
Fortune favors the brave.
Terence—Phormio. I. 4. 26. Quoted as a
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| text = <poem>Bravery never goes out of fashion.
Thackeray—Four Georges. George Second.
Audentes fortuna juvat.
Fortune favours the daring.
Vergil—Æneid. X. 284 and 458. Same
phrase or idea found in Cicero—De Finibus.
III. 4. and Tusc. II. 4. Claudianus—Ad
Probin. XLIH. 9. Ennius—Annates. V.
262. Livy—Bk. IV. 37; Bk. VII. 29; Bk.
XXXIV. 37. Menander—In Stob^jus
Flor. VII. P. 206. Ed. 1709. Ovid—Metamorphoses. X. 11. 27. Pliny the Younger
—Epistles. VI. 16. Tacitus—Annales. IV.
17.
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BRIBERY
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| text = <poem>And ye sail walk in silk attire,
And siller hae to spare,
Gin ye'll consent to be his bride,
Nor think o' Donald mair.
Susanna Blamhie—The Siller Crown.
<poem>'Tis pleasant purchasing our fellow-creatures;
And all are to be sold, if you consider Their passions, and are dext'rous; some by features Are brought up, others by a warlike leader; Some by a place—as tend their years or natures; The most by ready cash—but all have prices, From crowns to kicks, according to their vices. Byron—Don Juan. Canto V. St. 27.
<poem>Flowery oratory he [Walpole] despised. He ascribed to the interested views of themselves or their relatives the declarations of pretended patriots, of whom he said, "All those men have their price."
Coxe—Memoirs of Walpole. Vol. IV. P. 369.
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Demosthenes, bribed not to speak against Harpalus, he pretended to have lost his voice. Plutarch quotes the accusation as above. Also elsewhere refers to it as the "silver quinsey."
