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#contingency

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A quotation from Horace

I know, you always come out on top, the great exception.
Well, someday your enemies will laugh and laugh. Consider:
life is full of changes, and who can stand them better? A man
who treats his body and proud mind to luxury, addicting them,
or someone used to little, and to thinking of the future,
a man wise in peacetime, preparing then the tools of war?
 
[Uni nimirum recte tibi semper erunt res,
o magnus posthac inimicis risus. Uterne
ad casus dubios fidet sibi certius? Hic qui
pluribus adsuerit mentem corpusque superbum,
an qui contentus parvo metuensque futuri
in pace, ut sapiens, aptarit idonea bello?]

Horace (65-8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Satires [Saturae, Sermones], Book 2, # 2, “Quae virtus et quanta,” l. 106ff (2.2.106-111) (30 BC) [tr. Fuchs (1977)]

Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/horace/76560/

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⬆️ @TruthSandwich

Reuters thinks #Egypt is setting up area at #Gaza border to shelter #Palestinians.

Summary:

— "sources" say Egypt is setting up area as "contingency measure"

— Egypt denies making any such #contingency preparations

— Egypt has repeatedly rejected any #transfer of Palestinians

#Israel plans to attack #Rafah, where over 1 million people shelter

— Israel says it plans to #evacuate people to "other parts of Strip"

reuters.com/world/middle-east/