“But he whom reason, not anger, animates is a peer of the gods.”

— Claudian

Dis proximus ille est,
quem ratio non ira movet.
Panegyricus dictus Manlio Theodoro consuli, lines 227-228 http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/L/Roman/Texts/Claudian/Manlio_Theodoro*.html#227.

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Dis proximus ille est,<br/>quem ratio non ira movet.

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Roman Latin poet 370–404

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