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 Necessity takes impartially the highest and the lowest.
 [Lat., Aequa lege necessitas
  Sortitur insignes et imos.]  
 Necessity takes impartially the highest and the lowest.
 [Lat., Aequa lege necessitas
  Sortitur insignes et imos.] 
 Necessity is a violent school-mistress.
 [Fr., C'est une violente maistresse d'eschole que la necessite.]  
 Necessity is a violent school-mistress.
 [Fr., C'est une violente maistresse d'eschole que la necessite.] 
 Necessity makes even the timid brave.
 [Lat., Necessitas etiam timidos fortes facit.]  
 Necessity makes even the timid brave.
 [Lat., Necessitas etiam timidos fortes facit.] 
Necessity never made a good bargain
Necessity never made a good bargain
The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
Necessity knows no law except to conquer.
Necessity knows no law except to conquer.
 Thanne is it wysdom, as thynketh me,
 To maken vertu of necessite,
  And take it weel, that read more 
 Thanne is it wysdom, as thynketh me,
 To maken vertu of necessite,
  And take it weel, that we may not eschu,
   And namely that that to us alle is due. 
 So spake the Fiend, and with necessity,
 The tyrant's plea, excused his devilish deed.  
 So spake the Fiend, and with necessity,
 The tyrant's plea, excused his devilish deed.