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Do not fear god,

Do not worry about death;

What is good is easy to get, and

What is terrible is easy to endure

PHILODEMUS (HERCULANEUM PAPYRI 1005, 4.9–14)

One could press on or draw back in a private enterprise, and commit oneself more deeply or less at will, in accordance with the prospects of the moment. But in the pursuit of an empire there was no mean between the summit and the abyss

TACITUS, HISTORIES 2.74