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Auctor nominis eius Christus,Tiberio imperitante, per procuratorem Pontium Pilatum, supplicio affectus erat. Christ, the leader of the sect, had been put to death by the procurator Pontius Pilate in the reign of Tiberius.

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The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.
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Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
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Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]
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[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]
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An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.
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The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
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Deos fortioribus adesse. The gods support those who are stronger.
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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions.
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Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
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In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.
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Legions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous family
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Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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