“…live dangerously; take things as they come; dread naught, all will be well.”
My New York Misadventure, The Daily Mail, 4 and 5 January 1932
Reproduced in The Collected Essays of Sir Winston Churchill, Vol IV, Churchill at Large, Centenary Edition (1976), Library of Imperial History, p. 94. ISBN 0903988453
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“Thus each by his fears adds strength to rumour, and all dread the unconfirmed dangers invented by themselves.”
Sic quisque pavendo
dat vires famae, nulloque auctore malorum
quae finxere timent.
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus book Pharsalia
Book I, line 484 (tr. J. D. Duff).
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“Who hath not patience, ne'er the fruit shall gain;
Who all things coveteth, shall naught obtain.”
Chi pazienza non ha, non coglie il frutto,
E niente otterrà mai, chi brama tutto.
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“But many are driven to utmost peril by the mere dread of coming danger. He is truly brave, who is both quick to endure the ordeal, if it be close and pressing, and willing also to let it wait.”
Multos in summa pericula misit<br/>venturi timor ipse mali. Fortissimus ille est
qui, promptus metuenda pati, si comminus instent,
et differre potest.
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Multos in summa pericula misit
venturi timor ipse mali. Fortissimus ille est
qui, promptus metuenda pati, si comminus instent,
et differre potest.
Book VII, line 104 (tr. J. D. Duff).
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“Stewart: Well, that's great because we're all trying to do the same thing. Live well.”
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