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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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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.
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Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
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Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
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The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
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Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
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Crime succeeds by sudden despatch honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
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There was more courage in bearing trouble than in escaping from it the brave and the energetic cling to hope, even in spite of fortune the cowardly and the indolent are hurried by their fears,' said Plotius Firmus, Roman Praetorian Guard.
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A bad peace is even worse than war.
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Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]
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So true is it that all transactions of preeminent importance are wrapt in doubt and obscurity while some hold for certain facts the most precarious hearsays, others turn facts into falsehood and both are exaggerated by posterity.
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They make solitude, which they call peace.
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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.
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If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger. [Lat., Si cadere necesse est, occurendum discrimini.]
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Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent. [Lat., Praefulgebant Cassius atque Brutus eo ipso, quod effigies eorum non videbantur.]
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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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Every great example of punishment has in it some injustice, but the suffering individual is compensated by the public good.
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