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Fortune favors the brave.

Publius Vergilius Maro (Virgil) / Gaius Plinius Secundus (Pliny the Elder)

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Socrates

United we stand, divided we fall.

Attributed to Aesop, Popularized by John Dickinson

While there's life, there's hope.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

What soberness conceals, drunkenness reveals.

Popular culture

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Socrates

A prophet is without honor in his own country.

Jesus Christ (as documented by the Gospel writers)

The race is not always to the swift, but to those who keep on running.

Popular culture

Leading from the front.

Popular culture

Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.

Horace