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Can such resentment hold the minds of gods?

Your honor, your name, your praise will live forever.

No stranger to trouble myself I am learning to care for the unhappy.

Endure, and keep yourselves for days of happiness.

Even here, merit will have its true reward...

even here, the world is a world of tears

and the burdens of mortality touch the heart.

So hard and huge a task it was to found the Roman people.

Some day, perhaps, remembering even this

Will be a pleasure.

Friends and companions,

Have we not known hard hours before this?

My men, who have endured still greater dangers,

God will grant us an end to these as well.

They have but few laws, and such is their constitution that they need not many. They very much condemn other nations whose laws, together with the commentaries on them, swell up to so many volumes; for they think it an unreasonable thing to oblige men to obey a body of laws that are both of such a bulk, and so dark as not to be read and understood by every one of the subjects.

Translation: This vice [Pride] does not measure happiness so much by its own conveniences, as by the miseries of others.

The leader of the enterprise a woman.

Following what is decreed by fate.