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If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
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Following Emporer Nero's command, Let the Christians be exterminated!: . . . they [the Christians] were made the subjects of sport they were covered with the hides of wild beasts and worried to death by dogs, or nailed to crosses or set fire to, and when the day waned, burned to serve for the evening lights.
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Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
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Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.
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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
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Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
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