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Democritus put out his eyes, ne malorum civium prosperos videret successus, because he could not abide to see wicked men prosper, and was therefore ready to make away himself, as [6701] Agellius writes of him.
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Origen. saepe praeliis intersunt, itinera et negotia nostra quaecumque dirigunt, clandestinis subsidiis optatos saepe praebent successus, Pet.
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Musulmanici C鎠aris Admiralio, salutem et successus fortunatos.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Deus Optimus maximus hominis votis atque alacritati faueat, initia secundet, successus fortunet, exitum foelicissimum concedat.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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For a moment in the first book he flashes upon us in his full splendour (143): sed non in Caesare tantum nomen erat nec fama ducis: sed nescia virtus stare loco, solusque pudor non vincere bello. acer et indomitus, quo spes quoque ira vocasset. ferre manum et numquam temerando parcere ferro, successus urgere suos, instare fauori numinis, inpellens quidquid sibi summa petenti obstaret, gaudensque viam fecisse ruina.
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914
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Geoffrey Malaterra that Hauteville was not so much called from the height of any hill ( "non quidem tantum pro excellentia alicuius montis in quo sita sit"), but rather prophetically, from the height of power and glory to which men who went from it should climb ( "sed quoniam, ut credimus, aliquo auspicio ad considerationem praenotantis eventum et prosperos successus eiusdem villae futurorum haeredum, Dei adiutorio et sua presenuitate gradatim altioris honoris culmen scandentium").
Sketches of Travel in Normandy and Maine Edward Augustus Freeman 1857
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Sed rerum non recte inceptarum successus infelicior homines non prorsus oscitantes plerumque docet quid recte gestum quid perperam, quid factum superi volunt quid infectum.
The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3) James Anthony Froude 1856
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{44} Intererat mea id rescire, ipse enim petii ab illo, jam exacto biennio, ut id faceret, eumque pulchri successus certum reddidi, quod esset omnino conforme meis Principiis, absque quo nunquam de eo cogitasset, eo quod contrariâ tenebatur sententiâ. —
Pascal John Tulloch 1854
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Optimus maximus hominis votis atque alacritati faueat, initia secundet, successus fortunet, exitum foelicissimum concedat.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 04 Richard Hakluyt 1584
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fleuit successus Hannibal ipse suos; quae mergi nequeunt, nisu maiore resurgunt
Rome 1912
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