“To navigate is necessary, to live is not.”
To sailors who were defending Rome from a sea invasion.
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“More people worship the rising than the setting sun.”
Spoken by a young Pompey to the Dictator Sulla to get Sulla to award him a triumph
Life of Pompey
“Stop quoting laws, we carry weapons!”
“Οὐ παύσεσθε,” εἶπεν, “ἡμῖν ὑπεζωσμένοις ξίφη νόμους ἀναγινώσκοντες;” Plutarch, Lives. Pompey 10.3.2. To the Mamertines in Messana, complaining about Pompey's legal jurisdiction after their city was retaken during the civil warfare. Lit.: "'Will you not give up,' he said, 'reading laws to us men girt with swords?'"
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