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Pliny the Elder

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Fortune favours the brave…
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Attributed by Pliny the Younger to his uncle during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in which the Elder died
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Quoted in Pliny (1927) [c.100 CE]. ""LXVI, to Cornelius Tacitus"" (in English) (eBook). Letters of Pliny. translated by William Melmoth. Hoboken, NJ: Bibliobytes. pp. p. 48. ISBN 0585049971. "Here he stopped to consider whether he should turn back again; to which the pilot advising him, "Fortune", said he, "favours the brave; steer to where Pomponianus is."" 
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Commonly quoted as "Fortune favours the bold".

 
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