scaturrit mundus similibus exemplis: medicus in desperatione, gubernator in tempestate cognoscitur; horum omnium famam praecedentia pericula extollunt, quae profecto delitescit, nisi ubi probetur invenerit.
The world is full of examples of this kind: the doctor shows his mettle in a desperate case, the helmsman in a storm. The fame of all such men is enhanced by the trials they have previously confronted; on the other hand, their fame is obscured if it has found no field to be tested in.
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