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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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People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
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Reckless adventure is the fool's hazard.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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Rulers always hate and suspect the next in succession. [Lat., Suspectum semper invisumque dominantibus qui proximus destinaretur.]
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The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
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The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.
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This I regard as history's highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.
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The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.
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Rumor does not always err it sometimes even elects a man.
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Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
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Whatever is unknown is magnified.
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Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
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Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
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All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
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We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
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All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.
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The images of twenty of the most illustrious families the Manlii, the Quinctii, and other names of equal splendour were carried before it [the bier of Junia]. Those of Brutus and Cassius were not displayed but for that very reason they shone with pre-eminent lustre.
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In careless ignorance they think it civilization, when in reality it is a portion of their slavery...To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false pretenses, they call empire and where they make a desert, they call it peace.
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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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Things forbidden have a secret charm.
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