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If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.
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Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
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We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
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A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.
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Crime succeeds by sudden despatch honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
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Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
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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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