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Minor Latin poets; with introductions and English translations

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PUBLILIUS SVRUSIn poverty faith is fortune renewed."If you want to fear nothing, you should dread all.Diminished power keeps not its strength.The nurse's pangs are second to the mother's.He who repents his deed inflicts punishment onhimself.Innocence ever follows her own light.It's folly to want vengeance on another by punishingoneself.To destroy the laws is to rob oneself of one's firstsupport.He who cannot spare his own folk befriends liisfoes.It'sa painless wound that the victor must bear.By constant fear the wise man escapes harm.Sillyto grumble about misfortune when the fault'syour own.An hour often restores w hat many years have takenaway.Pleasant even the thorn which yields a rose to view." i.e. if a man reduced to poverty retains a faith in bettertimes to come, that is in some degree a restoration offortune.

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