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If The Victor Had The Gods On His Side, The Vanquished Had Cato.
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If the victor had the gods on his side, the vanquished had Cato.
-- Lucan (Marcus Annaeus Lucanus) AD 39-65
-- The Civil War, bk. I, 128
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It is the quality rather than the quantity that matters.
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