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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
Tacitus
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Toil and pleasure, in their natures opposite, are yet linked together in a kind of necessary connection.
Livy
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Each year new consuls and proconsuls are made; but not every year is a king or a poet born.
Florus
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Thus day was turned into night and light into darkness. Some thought that the Giants were rising again in revolt (for at this time also many of their forms could be discerned in the smoke and, moreover, a sound as of trumpets was heard), while others believed that the whole universe was being resolved into chaos or fire.
Cassius Dio
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