“Is it not better to die in a glorious attempt, than, after having been the sport of other men's insolence, to resign a wretched and degraded existence with ignominy?”

—  Sallust

Source: Bellum Catilinae (c. 44 BC), Chapter XX, section 9; quoting Catiline

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Nonne emori per virtutem praestat quam vitam miseram atque inhonestam, ubi alienae superbiae ludibrio fueris, per dedecus amittere?

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