spes firmas in rerum motibus habent, dubia tempora certius amant, et ignavia pariter conscientiaque trepidantes, cum sint in praetoriis leones, in castris lepores, timent foedera, ne discutiantur, bella, ne pugnent.
They have firm hopes in unsettlement, they cherish troubled times with special confidence; nervous alike from cowardice and from a bad conscience, they are lions in the palace and hares in the camp, fearing treaties lest they be brought to book and wars lest they have to fight.
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