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Egli è meglio perdere, dicendo il vero, che vincere con le bugie.
bernardo dovizi— Act I, scene II. — (Polinico).
— Translation: It is better to speak the truth, and lose, than to win by lying.
— Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 298.
Sed non in Caesare tantumnomen erat nec fama ducis, sed nescia virtusstare loco, solusque pudor non vincere bello.
marcus annaeus lucanus— But Caesar had more than a mere name and military reputation: his energy ould never rest, and his one disgrace was to conquer without war.
— Book I, line 143.
Every will stands on its own bottom and is various as anything whatsoever, and therefore it is hard to cite a case that can quadrate. I have mean thoughts of my own opinion. I may say in this case, diffieilius est invenire quam vincere, as Caesar said when he and his army ran about the Alps to find out a way.
— Treby, C.J., Monnington v. Davis (1695), Fortescue, 227.
Lumine Acon dextre, capta est Leonilla sinistre, Et potis est forma vincere uterque dees: Blande puer, lumen quod habes concede sorori, Sic tu cæcus Amor, sic erit illa Venus.
— Acon his right, Leonilla her left eye
Doth want; yet each in form, the gods out-vie.
Sweet boy, with thine, thy sister's sight improved:
So shall she Venus be, thou God of Love.
— Epigram said to be the "most celebrated of modern epigrams," by Warton, in his Essay on Pope. I, p. 299. (Ed. 1772). Translation as given in a Collection of Epigrams, Volume I. No. 223.
