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I think they have, though severe in themselves, beat the disease. But I am alike prepared, "Seu versare dolos, seu certæ occumbere morti." I only know that to live as I am just now is a gift little worth having. I think I will be in the Secret next week unless I recruit greatly. April 27.
Sir Walter Scott - The Journal of Sir Walter Scott: From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford

And yet commonly they take advantage of their inability, and would be thought wits of direction. But Solomon saith, Prudens advertit ad gressus suos; stultus divertit ad dolos. Of Wisdom For A Man's Self AN ANT is a wise creature for itself, but it is a shrewd thing, in an orchard or garden. And certainly, men that are great lovers of themselves, waste the public.
Francis Bacon - The Essays of Francis Bacon

Charles Emanuel, dead to all sense of magnanimity, rubbed his hands with delight in the successful perpetration of such fraud, exclaiming, "An virtus an dolos, quis ab hoste requirat."
John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott - The Empire of Austria; Its Rise and Present Power
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