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“Take the word of experience, I speak the truth: inaction is safest in danger.”
—Silius Italicus (26–101)
“They raise their minds by brooding over and embellishing their sufferings, from one degree of fervid exaltation and dreary greatness to another, till at length they run amuck entirely, and whoever meets them would do well to run them thro’ the body.”
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)