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  1. It's not "fortune favors the brave". It's "fortune favors the bold".
    Pliny the elder quoted it from a play written in 151BC by Terence Africanus called Turnus. Pliny the elder quoted it, while sailing towards the coast of Pompeii to investigate what happened.
    Side note: Pliny the elder died while investing the destruction caused by Mount Vesuvius upon Pompeii. He ended up suffocating from all the poisonous gasses still being released from volcanic ash and cooling magma. The ones who stayed on the ship while he investigated survived. So, I wouldn't say fortune favored him, at all.
    Sure. He's remembered for thousands of years after his death. But he's remembered for his ironic death. Everybody else said it didn't look safe, and they should go back and report what they saw. Instead Pliny said.. "fortune favors the bold"… then ran off to his death.
    The actual proverb is:
    "audentes Fortuna iuvat."

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