
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 270.
LXI.
Caelica (1633)
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 270.
“Just as an enemy is more dangerous to a retreating army, so every trouble that fortune brings attacks us all the harder if we yield and turn our backs.”
Quemadmodum perniciosior est hostis fugientibus, sic omne fortuitum incommodum magis instat cedenti et averso.
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter LXXXVIII: On liberal and vocational studies
XXXIX, 17, p. 170
‘The Second Part’, Chapters IV-XLI
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