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Quod si deficiant vires, audacia certe
Laus erit: in magnis et voluisse sat est.
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Translation: What though strength fails? Boldness is certain to win praise. In mighty enterprises, it is enough to have had the determination.
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Variant translation: Even if strength fail, boldness at least will deserve praise: in great endeavors even to have had the will is enough.
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II, x, 5

 

Sextus Propertius

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Atqui si vitiis mediocribus ac mea paucis
mendosa est natura, alioqui recta, velut si
egregio inspersos reprehendas corpore naevos,
si neque avaritiam neque sordes nec mala lustra
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at hoc nunc
laus illi debetur et a me gratia maior.
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Da quod iubes, et iube quod vis. Imperas nobis ... continentiam.

 

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