“But Virtue will follow fearless wherever destiny summons her. It will be a reproach to the gods, that they have made even me guilty.”

— Marcus Annaeus Lucanus , book Pharsalia

Book II, line 287 (tr. J. D. Duff).
Pharsalia

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Sed quo fata trahunt virtus secura sequetur. Crimen erit superis et me fecisse nocentem.

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