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		<title>Virgil -- The Aeneid [Ænē̆is], Book  1, l. 198ff (1.198-199) [Aeneas] (29-19 BC) [tr. Day Lewis (1952)]</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Comrades, we&#8217;re well acquainted with evils, then and now. Worse than this you have suffered. God will end all this too. [O socii &#8212; neque enim ignari sumus ante malorum &#8212; O passi graviora, dabit deus his quoque finem.] (Source (Latin)). Alternate translations: Deare friends (for we have many sorrows past) You worse have felt, [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Comrades, we&#8217;re well acquainted with evils, then and now.<br />
Worse than this you have suffered. God will end all this too.</p>
<p><em>[O socii &#8212; neque enim ignari sumus ante malorum &#8212;<br />
O passi graviora, dabit deus his quoque finem.]</em></p>
<br><b>Virgil</b> (70-19 BC) Roman poet [b. Publius Vergilius Maro; also Vergil]<br><i>The Aeneid [Ænē̆is]</i>, Book  1, l. 198ff (1.198-199) [Aeneas] (29-19 BC) [tr. Day Lewis (1952)] 
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(<a href="http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/vergil/aen1.shtml#:~:text=O%20socii%E2%80%94neque%20enim%20ignari%20sumus%20ante%20malorum">Source (Latin)</a>). Alternate translations:<br><br>



<blockquote>Deare friends (for we have many sorrows past)<br>
You worse have felt, God these will end at last.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo2/A65106.0001.001/1:6.1?rgn=div2;view=fulltext#:~:text=Deare%20friends%20(for,end%20at%20last%2C">Ogilby</a> (1649)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Endure, and conquer! Jove will soon dispose<br>
To future good our past and present woes.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Aeneid_(Dryden)/Book_I#:~:text=Endure%2C%20and%20conquer!%20Jove%20will%20soon%20dispose">Dryden</a> (1697)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>O companions, who have sustained severer ills than these, (for we are not strangers to former days of adversity,) to these, too, God will grant a termination.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Works_of_Virgil/GuFCAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA110&printsec=frontcover&bsq=%22sustained%20severer%22">Davidson/Buckley</a> (1854)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Comrades and friends! for ours is strength<br>
⁠Has brooked the test of woes;<br>
O worse-scarred hearts! these wounds at length<br>
⁠The Gods will heal, like those.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Aeneid_(Conington_1866)/Book_1#:~:text=Comrades%20and%20friends,heal%2C%20like%20those.">Conington</a> (1866)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>O friends, who greater sufferings still have borne,<br>
(for not unknown to us are former griefs,)<br>
And end also to these the deity<br>
Will give.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/aeneidvirgiltra00crangoog/page/n39/mode/2up?q=scylla">Cranch</a> (1872), l. 251ff]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>O comrades, for not now nor aforetime are we ignorant of ill, O tried by heavier fortunes, unto this last likewise will God appoint an end.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/22456/pg22456-images.html#:~:text=O%20comrades%2C%20for%20not%20now%20nor%20aforetime%20are%20we%20ignorant%20of%20ill%2C%20O%20tried%20by%20heavier%20fortunes%2C%20unto%20this%20last%20likewise%20will%20God%20appoint%20an%20end.">Mackail</a> (1885)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>O fellows, we are used ere now by evil ways to wend;<br>
O ye who erst bore heavier loads, this too the Gods shall end.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/29358/pg29358-images.html#:~:text=O%20fellows%2C%20we,Gods%20shall%20end.">Morris</a> (1900)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Comrades! of ills not ignorant; far more<br>
Than these ye suffered, and to these as well<br>
Will Jove give ending, as he gave before.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/18466/pg18466-images.html#:~:text=Comrades!%20of%20ills%20not%20ignorant">Taylor</a> (1907), st. 27 / l. 235ff]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Companions mine, we have not failed to feel<br>
calamity till now. O, ye have borne<br>
far heavier sorrow: Jove will make an end<br>
also of this.<br>
[tr. <a href="http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:latinLit:phi0690.phi003.perseus-eng2:1.198-1.207">Williams</a> (1910)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>O comrades -- for ere this we have not been ignorant of evils -- O ye who have borne a heavier lot, to this, too, God will grant an end!<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/L063NVirgilIEcloguesGeorgicsAeneid16/page/n265/mode/2up?q=%22o+comrades%22">Fairclough</a> (1916)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>O comrades, we have been through evil<br>
Together before this; we have been through worse<br>
[...] This, too, the god will end.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/61596/pg61596-images.html#:~:text=O%20comrades%2C%20we,god%20will%20end.">Humphries</a> (1951)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>O comrades -- surely we're not ignorant<br>
of earlier disasters, we who have suffered<br>
things heaver than this -- our god will give<br>
an end to this as well.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/aeneidofvirgil100virg/page/8/mode/2up?q=scylla">Mandelbaum</a> (1971), l. 276ff]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Friends and companions,<br>
Have we not known hard hours before this?<br>
My men, who have endured still greater dangers,<br>
God will grant us an end to these as well.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/aeneid00virg/page/10/mode/2up?q=%22friends+and+companions%22">Fitzgerald</a> (1981), l. 270ff]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>My friends, this is not the first trouble we have known. We have suffered worse before, and this too will pass. God will see to it.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/aeneidvirg00virg/page/8/mode/2up?q=%22not+the+first+trouble%22">West</a> (1990)]</blockquote><br>



<blockquote>O friends (well, we were not unknown to trouble before)<br>
O you who’ve endured worse, the god will grant an end to this too.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Latin/VirgilAeneidI.php#anchor_Toc535054289:~:text=%E2%80%98O%20friends%20(well,to%20this%20too.">Kline</a> (2002)]</blockquote><br>



<blockquote>Trojans! This is not our first taste of trouble.<br>
You have suffered worse than this, my friends,<br>
And God will grant an end to this also.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Aeneid/KGG_69G7uQ0C?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=lombardo%20aeneid&pg=PP1&printsec=frontcover&bsq=faced%20scylla's%20fury">Lombardo</a> (2005), l. 234ff]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>My comrades, hardly strangers to pain before now,<br>
we all have weathered worse. Some god will grant us<br>
an end to this as well. <br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Aeneid/okrFGPoJb6cC?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PP1&printsec=frontcover&bsq=%22some%20god%20will%20grant%22">Fagles</a> (2006)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>My friends: we're no strangers to misfortune. You've suffered worse; some god will end this too.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Aeneid/FioVEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=bartsch%20aeneid&pg=PP1&printsec=frontcover&bsq=friends%20suffered%20worse">Bartsch</a> (2021)]</blockquote><br>
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		<title>Beecher, Henry Ward -- Norwood; or, Village Life in New England, Vol. 1, ch. 6 (1867)</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.</p>
<br><b>Henry Ward Beecher</b> (1813-1887) American clergyman and orator<br><i>Norwood; or, Village Life in New England</i>, Vol. 1, ch. 6 (1867) 
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		<title>Newman, John -- (Attributed)</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.</p>
<br><b>John Henry Newman</b> (1801-1890) English prelate, Catholic Cardinal, theologian<br>(Attributed) 
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Also attributed to Golda Meir.						</span>
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		<title>Bacon, Francis -- Essays or Counsels Civil and Moral, No. 29 &#8220;Of the True Greatness of Kingdoms and Estates&#8221; (1612)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nay, number (itself) in armies importeth not much, where the people is of weak courage; for (as Virgil saith) It never troubles a wolf how many the sheep be. The wolf reference is actually a common Latin proverb: &#8220;Non curat numerum lupus [The wolf doesn&#8217;t care about the number],&#8221; or its longer form &#8220;Lupus non [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nay, number (itself) in armies importeth not much, where the people is of weak courage; for (as Virgil saith) <em>It never troubles a wolf how many the sheep be.</em></p>
<br><b>Francis Bacon</b> (1561-1626) English philosopher, scientist, author, statesman<br><i>Essays or Counsels Civil and Moral</i>, No. 29 &#8220;Of the True Greatness of Kingdoms and Estates&#8221; (1612) 
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The wolf reference is actually a common Latin proverb: <em>"Non curat numerum lupus</em> [The wolf doesn't care about the number]," or its longer form <em>"Lupus non curat numerum ovium"</em> [The wolf does not care about the number of sheep.]. <br><br>

Though Bacon explicitly notes the phrase in <a href="https://wist.info/virgil/5527/">Virgil's <em>Eclogues</em></a>, the Latin saying is often attributed to Bacon. 						</span>
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		<title>Eisenhower, Dwight David -- Crusade in Europe (1948)</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Morale is the greatest single factor in successful war.</p>
<br><b>Dwight David Eisenhower</b> (1890-1969) American general, US President (1953-61)<br><i>Crusade in Europe</i> (1948) 
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		<description><![CDATA[Train people well enough so they can leave. Treat them well enough so they don&#8217;t want to.]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Train people well enough so they can leave. Treat them well enough so they don&#8217;t want to.</p>
<br><b>Richard Branson</b> (b. 1950) English business magnate, investor, philanthropist<br>Tweet (27 Mar 2014) 
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		<title>Liddell Hart, B. H. -- Strategy, ch. 15 (1954)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A strategist should think in terms of paralyzing, not of killing. Even on the lower plane of warfare, a man killed is merely one man less, whereas a man unnerved is a highly infectious carrier of fear, capable of spreading an epidemic of panic. &#8230; The sword drops from a paralyzed hand.]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A strategist should think in terms of paralyzing, not of killing. Even on the lower plane of warfare, a man killed is merely one man less, whereas a man unnerved is a highly infectious carrier of fear, capable of spreading an epidemic of panic. &#8230; The sword drops from a paralyzed hand.</p>
<br><b>B. H. Liddell Hart</b> (1895-1970) English soldier, military historian (Basil Henry Liddell Hart)<br><i>Strategy</i>, ch. 15 (1954) 
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