O gloriam licitam, quia humanam, cui nec praesumptio perdita nec persuasio desperata reputatur in contemptu mortis et atrocitatis omnimodae, cui tantum pro patria, pro imperio, pro amicitia pati permissum est quantum pro deo non licet! Et tamen illis omnibus et statuas defunditis, et imagines inscribitis, et titulos inciditis in aeternitatem.
O that indeed is glory, lawful glory because human! There no reckless presumption, no desperate delusion, is to be thought of, in that contempt for death and for every cruelty! No, there it is permissible to suffer for ones country, for the empire, for friendship, what it is not permitted to suffer'for God! And yet for every man of them you cast a statue, you paint a picture, you carve an inscription, to give them immortality.
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