"A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace."
"It is less to suffer punishment than to deserve it. [Lat., Estque pati poenas quam meruisse minus.]"
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Source: Ars Amatoria bk. 1, l. 637 See Voltaire 18
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